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Anton Rippon

How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On

Anton Rippon was born in the Midlands during the Second World War. Anton has worked as a newspaper journalist and feature writer – his work has appeared in The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph and FourFourTwo – and he is the author of some 30 books. Other recent books of Anton's include Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Football (David & Charles, 2012), Gunther Pluschow: Airman, Escaper and Explorer (Pen & Sword Military, 2009) and Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain during the Second World War (The History Press, 2007). For over 20 years he was a publisher with Breedon Books, the sports and history book publishing company he founded in 1982 and ran until he sold it in 2003 in order to resume his own writing career. Anton is a member of the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain, the Football Writers' Association, and the International Society of Olympic Historians.
225 printed pages
Copyright owner
Michael O'Mara Books
Publication year
2014
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    AFS – Auxiliary Fire Service
    ARP – Air Raid Precautions
    ATS – Auxiliary Territorial Service
    CD – Civil Defence
    CO – Commanding Officer
    ENSA – Entertainments National Service Association
    GCO – General Commanding Officer
    HE – High Explosive (bomb)
    JP – Justice of the Peace
    KP – Kitchen Patrol
    LDV – Local Defence Volunteers
    MEF – Middle East Forces
    MO – Medical Officer
    MP – Military Policeman
    NAAFI – Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
    NCO – Non-Commissioned Officer
    NFS – National Fire Service
    RAF – Royal Air Force
    RAMC – Royal Army Medical Corps
    RASC – Royal Army Service Corps
    REME – Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
    RNVR – Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
    RSM – Regimental Sergeant Major
    SAS – Special Air Service
    USAAF – United States of America Air Force
    UXB – Unexploded Bomb
    VAD – Voluntary Aid Detachment
    WAAF – Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
    WRNS – Women’s Royal Naval Service
    WVC – Women’s Voluntary Corps
    WVS – Women’s Voluntary Service
    YMCA – Young Men’s Christian Association

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