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Author | : Carol Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first German bombs fell on London on 24 August 1940. On 8 November 1940, 30,000 incendiary bombs rained down on Coventry, laying waste to the city, including, famously, its cathedral. This title collects a series of accounts from the war's darkest days, with stories of survival, perseverance, solidarity, and bravery.
Author | : Mike Brown |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075246275X |
The historian Carol Harris has collected together a remarkable series of accounts from the war's darkest days, with heart-warming stories of survival, perseverance, solidarity and bravery, the preservation of which becomes increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory. War with Germany seemed increasingly likely throughout the 1930s. The British Government and the general population believed that bombs and poison gas would be dropped on civilians in major towns and cities with the aim of terrifying them into surrendering. Today the Blitz, far from breaking civilian morale, is seen as achieving the opposite; it helped galvanise public opinion to carry on fighting the war. But in 1937, preparations to protect the population were hopelessly inadequate, and the British government was far from confident that people would respond in this way.
Author | : Naomi Clifford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781919623207 |
A gripping eyewitness account of hidden impact of war on the home front during the London Blitz, based on the diaries of a woman ambulance driver. 28 inline illustrations 1 map
Author | : Carol Harris |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075246275X |
During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids and the response of rescue services was chaotic. But far from breaking morale, the Blitz galvanised public opinion in support of the war. Soon people became hardened by their experiences and attacks from the air became a normal, albeit terrible, part of daily life.Blitz Diary tells the story in a remarkable series of eyewitness accounts from the war’s earliest and darkest days through to the end, when the V-2 rockets brought devastation without warning. Preservation of such first-hand accounts has become increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory. This expanded edition includes new chapters and new accounts from key eyewitnesses.
Author | : Carol Harris |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780750994873 |
Carol Harris and Mike Brown collaborate on a revised and updated edition of Blitz Diary
Author | : Colin Perry |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1445612321 |
The only first-hand account of the Blitz to be written as it was happening.
Author | : Vince Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781407198873 |
My Story: Blitzis a thrilling wartime tale about two siblings evacuated to Wales. It's 1940, and with London under fire Edie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales. Miles from home and missing her family, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital she is torn between obeying her parents and protecting her brother. Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!
Author | : Vince Cross |
Publisher | : Scholastic UK |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0702301027 |
My Story: Blitz is a thrilling wartime tale about two siblings evacuated to Wales. It's 1940, and with London under fire Edie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales. Miles from home and missing her family, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital she is torn between obeying her parents and protecting her brother. Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!
Author | : Vince Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780545985666 |
A young girl' s account of life in London during the Blitz, and the desperate evacuation that followed. It's 1940. Edie Benson lives in a little house in Lewisham, London with her family. When she starts her diary, little does she know that her summer is going to be one of air-raid sirens and bombs, leading to the evacuation of her and her brother to Wales. Miles from home, away from everything she loves, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital, she is torn between obeying her parents and protecting her brother. The My Story books are both engaging and educational, developed to teach older readers about important, pivotal moments in world history. The diary format allows readers to get a first-hand account of the difficult, yet fascinating lives of children in the past.
Author | : Erik Larson |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 038534872X |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.