The Myth Of The Blitz
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
15 September 1992
Summary
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat by team work, improvisation and muddling through.In fact, in many ways, the Blitz was not like that. Sixty-thousand people were conscientious objectors; a quarter of London’s population fled to the country; Churchill and the royal family were booed while touring the afterma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712698207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712698205 |
| Author: | Angus Calder |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 1992 |
| Weight: | 442g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 25mm |
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This is a book written with style, scholarship and compassion, which can only enhance and deepen our understanding of a still critical episode in modern British history
This is a book written with style, scholarship and compassion, which can only enhance and deepen our understanding of a still critical episode in modern British history – Ian S. Wood * Scotsman *
Disturbing as it may be to those who were there, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz have to be understood on one level as media events, and this Angus Calder does supremely well – John Vincent * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Angus Calder
Angus Calder was an academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor, and Reader in Cultural Studies and Staff Tutor in Arts with the Open University in Scotland. He read English at Cambridge and received his D. Phil from the School of Social Studies at the University of Sussex. He was Convener of the Scottish Poetry Library when it was founded in 1984. In 1970 he won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his seminal work, The People’s War. His other books include Revolutionary Empire and The Myth of the Blitz. He died in 2008.
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