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Author | : John Ray |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909270768 |
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September 1940: defeated in the Battle of Britain, despite their superior numbers and better equipped aircraft, the Luftwaffe launched a new campaign of attack, their target this time the civilian population. For eight months, with hardly a night's break, Luftwaffe bombers pounded industrial cities and seaports in a concentrated attempt to smash Britain's war economy and destroy civilian morale. It was the first time a civilian population had been subject to mass attack, night after night, and important lessons were to be learned on both sides. If this campaign failed - as it did - then surely Britain could win the war.In this finely structured and consistently fascinating study of the campaign, Second World War historian John Ray assesses the strategies, weapons and defence tactics employed throughout the Night Blitz. He graphically recalls the effects of the Blitz on British cities, industry and people, month by month. This was the war at home, when terror fell indiscriminately from the skies. Yet despite all the death and destruction, the spirit of the British people remained undaunted even in their darkest hours.
Author | : John Philip Ray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Ray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781422394816 |
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September 1940: defeated in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe launched a new campaign of attack, their target this time the civilian population. For 8 months, Luftwaffe bombers pounded industrial cities & seaports in a attempt to smash Britainżs war economy & destroy civilian morale. It was the first time a civilian population had been subject to mass attack, night after night. This study of the campaign assesses the strategies, weapons & defense tactics employed throughout the Night Blitz. Ray graphically recalls the effects of the Blitz on British cities, industry & people, month by month. Yet despite all the death & destruction, the spirit of the British people remained undaunted, even in their darkest hours. Photos.
Author | : John Ray |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
Genre | : Bombing, Aerial |
ISBN | : 9781854094681 |
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Author | : J. R. Alban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Bombing, Aerial |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret Gaskin |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780151014040 |
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A historical narrative of Germany's 1940 Luftwaffe attack on London vividly reconstructs the events of December 29 during which Hitler's forces attempted to burn the city to the ground, in an account told from the perspectives of everyday survivors as well as such figures as Edward R. Morrow and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Author | : Gavin Mortimer |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780222238 |
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On 10-11 May 1941, Londoners thought the Nazi bombs would never stop falling as the London Blitz reached its furious zenith. These are the true stories from the survivors of one of the longest nights in the Second World War 'An excellent book . . . Mortimer has interviewed scores of survivors for this gripping tale' Scotland on Sunday On the afternoon of Saturday 10 May 1941, crowds gather at Wembley to watch Arsenal play Preston in the Cup Final. Australian journalist John Hughes starts his shift at Reuters in Fleet Street; 20-year-old Reenie Carter reports for duty at her fire station in Westminster Abbey; RAF pilot Guy Gibson relaxes in the sun before his night patrol; Vera Lynn drives in for an evening concert. Meanwhile, thousands of German airmen are preparing for a massive night raid. Gavin Mortimer has interviewed many survivors of this night to reveal the reality of the London Blitz. In a matter of hours, 1,486 Londoners were killed, 11,000 houses were destroyed, and millions of lives were changed for ever.
Author | : Eileen Alexander |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 006288882X |
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On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared, Gershon heads for Cairo and Eileen forgoes her studies to work in the Air Ministry. As cinematic as Atonement, written with the intimacy of the Neapolitan quartet, Love in the Blitz is an extraordinary glimpse of life in London during World War II and an illuminating portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved ones are called up to fight, some never to return home. Written over the course of the conflict, Eileen’s letters provide a vivid and personal glimpse of this historic era. Yet throughout the turmoil and bloodshed, one thing remains constant: her beloved Gershon, who remains a source of strength and support, even after he, too, joins the fighting. Though his letters have been lost to time, the bolstering force of his love for Eileen is illuminated in her responses to him. Equal parts heartrending and heartwarming, Love in the Blitz is a timeless romance and a deeply personal story of life and resilience amid the violence and terror of war.
Author | : Juliet Gardiner |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780007386611 |
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September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight months long, the Blitz was the form of warfare that had been predicted throughout the 1930s, that everyone had expected since Neville Chamberlain's declaration that Britain was at war with Germany. The ferocity of the Luftwaffe attacks, combined with images of the City of London burning are widely considered to be iconic snapshots of Second World War history. Though compared with other great moments of that war -- D-Day, Dunkirk, V E Day -- the Blitz remains curiously unexamined. Apart from fragmentary accounts and local records, there is little in the way of a comprehensive account of the Blitz experience that so many British civilians went through -- as well as the social, political and cultural implications of the bombardment. Designed to break the morale of the British population, the nightly bombings certainly did devastate. But, as Juliet Gardiner shows in this hugely important book, they also served to galvanise the nation; from those eight months of terrifying Nazi onslaught, a new determination amongst people and politicians steadily emerged. Revealing, original and beautifully written, THE BLITZ is a much-needed exploration of one of the most important moments in Second World War history.
Author | : Inez Holden |
Publisher | : Handheld Classics |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-05-30 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9781912766062 |
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Emerging out of the 1940-1941 London Blitz, the drama of these two short works, a novel and a memoir, comes from the courage and endurance of ordinary people met in the factories, streets and lodging houses of a city under bombardment.