The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940 - June 1941

ISBN-13: 9780198848509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 544 str.

Paul Addison; Jeremy A. Crang

Opis

Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, this volume tells the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history.

Recenzje

Reports from the period of the German night bombing offensive against London and other cities, ably edited by Crang... and the late Addison... add enormously to readers' understanding of what remains an iconic moment in modern British history. CHOICE magazine

O autorze

Paul Addison was a historian of twentieth century Britain who taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 2005. He was Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies at Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005 and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls from 1990-1991. Jeremy A. Crang is a historian of twentieth-century Britain who has taught at the University of Edinburgh since 1993. He was Assistant Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies at Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005 and has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2006 and 2010) and Pembroke College, Oxford (2014).