Blitz Diary

Blitz Diary
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780752462752
ISBN-13 : 075246275X
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Book Synopsis Blitz Diary by : Mike Brown

Download or read book Blitz Diary written by Mike Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian Carol Harris has collected together a remarkable series of accounts from the war's darkest days, with heart-warming stories of survival, perseverance, solidarity and bravery, the preservation of which becomes increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory. War with Germany seemed increasingly likely throughout the 1930s. The British Government and the general population believed that bombs and poison gas would be dropped on civilians in major towns and cities with the aim of terrifying them into surrendering. Today the Blitz, far from breaking civilian morale, is seen as achieving the opposite; it helped galvanise public opinion to carry on fighting the war. But in 1937, preparations to protect the population were hopelessly inadequate, and the British government was far from confident that people would respond in this way.


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