Download or read book Wales at War written by Stuart Broomfield and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wales at War, Stuart Broomfield examines how World War II affected Wales and its people. He includes its role as a strategic refuge, attitudes to the conflict, air raids and the crisis in the coal industry. He also seeks to explain why the Labour Party did so well there in the General Election of 1945, despite Winston Churchill's status as victorious war-leader.