Amy Helen Bell

London Was Ours

Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz

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London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day. - Joan Bright Astley. The German bombing raids on London from September 1940 to May 1941 - the London Blitz - supply us with some of the most dramatic and mythologised stories from the Home Front of the Second World War. But often overlooked in historical studies of the Blitz are the narratives supplied by Londoners themselves. In shelters, in kitchens and in offices, they wrote about their daily lives under duress, scribbling into diaries, notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. London was Ours analyses over two hundred lette… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85771-446-6
EAN: 9780857714466
Produktnummer: 22568076
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'304 KB

Über den Autor

Amy Bell is Assistant Professor of History at Huron University College in Canada. She was born in New Brunswick and received her PhD from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Her area of research is the civilian experience in wartime Britain, on which she has lectured and written extensively.