Description
Product ID: | 9780750994873 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Blitz Diary |
Subtitle: | Life Under Fire in the Second World War |
Authors: | Author: Carol Harris, Mike Brown |
Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Second World War, Military and defence strategy, Second World War, Defence strategy, planning & research, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Carol Harris and Mike Brown collaborate on a revised and updated edition of Blitz Diary 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. |
Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-09-01 |