![]() When the anticipated air raids never happened, the posters were taken to the various dumps across Britain. What I found most revealing in this short book was that these posters were never officially used. immediately following a severe air-raid”. “Keep Calm and Carry On” was a slogan chosen because it conveyed “a determination not to give in, it created a sense of resilience and resistance, to continue as normal, whatever happens.” The posters were “held in reserve for immediate posting should the necessity arrive, e.g. Lewis traced the origin of the modern “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster meme, where variations and parodies of its simple slogan pop up everywhere. I realize that she needed to establish a background for the WWII title subject but I didn’t find it all too interesting. Lewis spent the first half of the book looking at British poster history, focussing at first on the Great War and the role of propaganda in making posters effective. Keep Calm had endnotes yet the superscript digits were so small I wasn’t aware that they were even there. ![]() I wonder if the entire population of the British Isles either has eagle-eye vision or is otherwise now blind. This microbiography was also fittingly printed in microscopic print this is so typical of British books. ![]() Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster by Bex Lewis is a small book of eighty pages, chosen because I was interested in the subject matter of course but also because I wanted to make sure I finished reading and reviewing my books before Mark and I go on holiday next week.
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