London War Notes 1939-1945. Edited by William Shawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London War Notes 1939-1945. Edited by William Shawn write by Mollie Panter-Downes. This book was released on 1972. London War Notes 1939-1945. Edited by William Shawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
London War Notes, 1939-1945
London War Notes, 1939-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London War Notes, 1939-1945 write by Mollie Panter-Downes. This book was released on 1972-01-01. London War Notes, 1939-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Battle of London 1939-45
The Battle of London 1939-45 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of London 1939-45 write by Jerry White. This book was released on 2021-11-04. The Battle of London 1939-45 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Endlessly fascinating. . . White is such a brilliant historian' Mail on Sunday Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant anxiety, disruption, deprivation and sacrifice for Londoners. With the capital the nation's frontline during the Second World War, by its end, 30,000 inhabitants had lost their lives. While much has been written about 'the Myth of the Blitz', its riveting social history has often been overlooked. Unearthing what it was actually like for those living through those tempestuous years, Jerry White paints a fascinating portrait of the daily lives of ordinary Londoners, telling the story through their own voices. 'As a history of the capital in wartime, it is probably unsurpassable' Sunday Telegraph 'An impressive history of the capital at war. . . White, an accomplished chronicler of London's history, tells it with brio and a confident mastery of the sources' Literary Review
Reading London in Wartime
Reading London in Wartime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading London in Wartime write by William Cederwell. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Reading London in Wartime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the representation of London in wartime and early post-war literature through each writer’s unique perspective on the pressures of 1940s city life. Exploring the use of London imagery, this book considers how literature redirects attention to individual, subjective experience at a time of enforced co-operation, uniformity and community. Unlike government information films and news broadcasts, which often used London to prop up prevailing clichés and stereotypes, and encouraged patriotic support for the war, literature had the freedom to express more recalcitrant truths. London writing of the 1940s was not a literature of opposition or dissent, but in offering more nuanced depictions of the period, it was a counterweight to propaganda and the general war temperament. In writing, the city becomes a more complex place, no longer the easy symbol of defiance and stoicism, of the shared sacrifice of ration book and war work.
British Civilians in the Front Line
British Civilians in the Front Line - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Civilians in the Front Line write by Helen Jones. This book was released on 2006-04-30. British Civilians in the Front Line available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides an analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'. It will be enjoyed by historians of the Second World War and those seeking to understand better ways in which civilians have experienced war in the twentieth century."--Jacket.
