Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939-1945
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- Synopsis
- For today's reader, who is living through our biggest social dislocation since the Second World War and witnessing a crisis of unprecedented proportions, Blitz Spirit is a book written to gently invite comparison and provoke questions about our place in history. Becky Brown has selected extracts from the Mass Observation Archives to anthologise the voices of everyday people as they deal individually and collectively with the crisis of the Second World War. The diarists themselves have been selected from every level of society - from warehousemen to widows, soldiers to farmhands, WRENs to architects.The extracts have been chosen to both uplift and to ground; to remind readers that nothing is new, that everything can be weathered and perhaps even made better. After all, World War II saw the birth of the NHS.(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529347074
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529347050
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date of Addition:
- 10/19/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Becky Brown
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Alex Wingfield
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.