The Complete Home Front Archive (2027 Edition)

Everyone remembers the battles. Nobody kept the receipts. This is the complete record — every volume the Home Front Archive has built, in one purchase.

Volume I — The Ration Book — What America Lived On, 1941–1945. Every ration, point value, ceiling price and war wage from 1941–1945, transcribed from OPA and BLS federal records and converted to today's dollars — the coffee ration, the shoe stamp, and an eighteen-item grocery week costed out of the BLS price tables at $8.83.

Volume II — The House That Went to War, 1941–1945. The other half of the ledger: what the house gave. Series E bonds, victory gardens (21 million in 1943, 42% of the country's produce that year), the kitchen-fat drive, scrap tonnage, blackout rules, and V-mail — 37 mailbags folded down to one — all sourced to OWI, OCD, and War Bond Division records.

Volume III — The Home Front Almanac, 1941–1945. A month-by-month record of the war years at home, December 1941 to August 1945, built around reproductions of the original public-domain documents themselves — ration books, OPA orders, OWI posters — plus family record and interview pages for your own household's account. Volume III and the bonuses below exist nowhere else, at any price.

Also included:

- The 1943 Point-Value Card — a one-page printable reference: what a red stamp or blue stamp actually bought, that year.

- The War Worker's Pay Packet — a small printable kit of wartime paychecks by job and rank, set beside their value today.

The honest math: Volume I and Volume II, bought separately, run $28 + $46 = $74. The Complete Home Front Archive is $95 — the only way to add Volume III and both bonuses, which are never sold on their own.

Already own a volume? Your upgrade to the Complete Archive is the bundle price minus exactly what you already paid — nobody pays for the same pages twice. Write contact@warrationbook.com and we apply it by hand.

Format: instant PDF download (5 files: three volumes plus both printable bonuses), print-friendly, delivered immediately after purchase.

Guarantee: the Cited-Source Guarantee — two promises, not one. Read it, and if it doesn't earn its place on your shelf, write us within 7 days of purchase and you get a full refund. And if a figure doesn't trace to the order, bulletin, table and page we cite for it, tell us: we correct the record in the next edition — however long after your purchase you find it — and refund every cent if you write within 7 days of buying.

This is history, not financial advice.