ALL THREE VOLUMES + THE BONUSES + THE PAGES ONLY YOUR FAMILY CAN FILL IN

Three Volumes. One Record.

Volume I is what the ration took — every point, stamp and ceiling price the government set. Volume II is what the house gave back — the bonds, the gardens, the blackouts, the letters written by hand. Volume III is the documents themselves, and the pages your own family fills in. Every figure verified. Every source printed. History, not financial advice.

VOL I $28 + VOL II $46 = $74 sold separately.
The Complete Archive is $95 — a little more, for the third volume that exists nowhere else, plus both bonuses.

From the makers of the History Empire channel Every figure checked against the federal record — read the whole source list first The Cited-Source Guarantee — corrections logged in public

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The households that ran on sixteen red points per person a week — sixty-four to a four-week ration book — kept that arithmetic in their heads and almost never on paper. This is where it gets written down, and handed on, before it goes quiet for good.

The Ration Book

Every point, stamp and ceiling price of the wartime economy, 1941–1945

$28

60+ pages, eleven wartime chapters
The complete 1943 red and blue point-value tables, reprinted
A week’s groceries, a soldier’s pay, and a factory paycheck, converted to today’s dollars
The shortest path in — one sourced fact per page, built to read aloud at the table

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The House That Went to War

Bonds, victory gardens, scrap drives, blackouts and V-mail — the systems every family ran

$46

The home-front systems told whole: the exact rules and arithmetic
Victory gardens, canning, and the make-do household
War bonds, scrap drives, blackouts, and the V-mail letter
Standalone — needs nothing else to be useful

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THE COMPLETE ARCHIVE · BEST VALUE

The Complete Home Front Archive cover: the complete set, Volumes I, II and III. Dark book cloth and a gold New 2027 Version medallion.

The Complete Archive

Volume I + Volume II + Volume III + both bonuses — the record entire

$95 vs $74 for I + II alone

Everything in Volumes I and II
Volume III — The Home Front Almanac: the document plates, the month-by-month year, the Kitchen-Table Interview — not sold separately at any price
Bonus: The 1943 Point-Value Card — the pantry-door one-pager
Bonus: The War Worker’s Pay Packet — the pay envelope, printed
Large, comfortable type across all three volumes

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Why Volume III Is Only in the Bundle

Volumes I and II are the record. Volume III is what a family does with it — it completes the other two, so it lives only beside them.

PART ONE

The Document Plates

Ten period documents, re-set and annotated — ration books, OPA orders, OWI posters — each plate with its provenance printed beneath it. All public-domain federal works.

PART TWO

The Home Front Year

The ration year, January through December — what each month of it asked of a household, drawn from across 1941 to 1945 as the government and the newspapers recorded it.

PART THREE

The Kitchen-Table Interview

Forty questions and record pages for the answers — the one document no archive anywhere can write for your family but you.

Volumes I and II hold the record. Only the Complete Archive holds what your family adds to it.

The Bonuses, Shown Plainly

No invented “$95 value” theater — here is exactly what they are.

BONUS ONE

The 1943 Point-Value Card

A single printable page — the complete March 1943 red and blue point values, ruled to pin above the pantry door. No book, no computer, just the table.

BONUS TWO

The War Worker’s Pay Packet

A printable pay envelope with the bond and point ledgers built into it — the wartime paycheck, laid out the way a factory clerk would have handed it over.

Fair Questions

I already own Volume I. Do I pay full price for the bundle?

No — you pay the difference: the $95 Complete Archive minus exactly what you paid for Volume I. Write to [email protected] with the email you bought with and we’ll set it up. You never pay for the same book twice.

Why is it called the 2027 Edition?

Because it’s the edition you’ll use all through 2027. Every dollar figure is converted to today’s money with the government’s own price index as of May 2026. In January, when the government publishes the year’s final index, we re-run every conversion and send the updated files to everyone who bought, free. Anything you’ve bought is yours forever.

What format is it, and will I be able to open it?

It’s a set of PDFs — the same kind of file a doctor’s office or the bank emails you. They open by themselves on any phone, tablet, or computer, with nothing to install, in large comfortable type. Prefer paper? Press Print. And if anything gives you trouble, write to [email protected] — a real person answers. No apps, no subscriptions, yours forever.

What if it’s not for me?

The Cited-Source Guarantee is two separate promises. One: if it doesn’t earn its place on your shelf, write us within 7 days of buying and get every cent back — no questions, no forms. Two: if a figure doesn’t trace to the order, bulletin, table and page we cite for it, we correct the record in the next edition — however long after your purchase you find it — and the corrected file goes to everyone who already bought. That second promise has no deadline; it does not end when the refund window ends. Check us before you buy on the sources page, and see what we have had to correct on the correction log.

Why is Volume III not sold alone?

Because it isn’t a standalone record — it’s the plates and pages that complete Volumes I and II, and the interview pages your family fills in beside them. Selling it apart would mean selling the second half of a book without the first. It exists only in the Complete Archive.

Did a person actually research this, or is it AI-written filler?

The research is government bulletins, OPA orders, and federal archive holdings — and the bibliography is printed inside each volume and published in full on the sources page, so you can check any figure yourself against the original source before you buy anything. We use modern tools to organize and draft faster; we don’t use them as a substitute for going to the record. If a number is ever wrong, it is ours to fix, and the fix is logged where anyone can see it — the correction log. See the Cited-Source Guarantee below.

Own the Record. All of It.

Here is everything that arrives in your mailbox the moment you order.

The Complete Archive · What You Get

Volume I — The Ration Book, 1941–194560+ pages
Volume II — The House That Went to War60+ pages
Volume III — The Home Front Almanac (bundle only)39 pages · 10 plates
Bonus — The 1943 Point-Value Cardprintable
Bonus — The War Worker’s Pay Packetprintable
The record entire — three volumes, both bonuses$95

The Cited-Source Guarantee — two promises, not one. Seven days, every cent back: if the Archive doesn’t earn its place on your shelf, write us within 7 days of buying and the refund is yours — no questions, no forms. Corrections, with no deadline: if a figure doesn’t trace to the order, bulletin, table and page we cite for it, we correct the record and everyone who already bought gets the corrected file, however long after the purchase it turns up. You can test the first promise today and audit the second one before you spend anything: the whole bibliography is on the sources page, and every correction we have logged is on the correction log. Both promises in full.

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Or start with one volume above — you can always upgrade later for the difference.

The generation that ran the ration book and kept the pay envelope balanced — sixteen red points per person a week, sixty-four to a four-week book — left almost none of that arithmetic behind. This is how the record gets written down, and handed on, before it goes quiet for good.