London Was Ours Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz

Name: London Was Ours Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz
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ISBN: 9781848858497

ISBN-10: 1848858493

ISBN-13: 9781848858497

Edition: 2011

Authors: Amy Helen Bell

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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 letters, diaries and memoirs written by those citizens who endured the Blitz, restoring the forgotten voices of ordinary individuals to the collective memory of the Blitz and World War II.…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 5/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Looking at London



Raids and Rationing



Workers and Civil Defence



Children and the Family



Love in the Blitz



Remembering the Blitz


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index