London Was Ours

London Was Ours
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-13 : 9780857714466
ISBN-10 : 0857714465
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis London Was Ours by : Amy Helen Bell

Download or read book London Was Ours written by Amy Helen Bell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day." - Joan Bright Astley. 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. Their writings reveal widely varying points of view, often at odds with official wartime narratives and subsequent histories, making this a vital contribution to the social history of wartime Britain.


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