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The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#327465-XD21
Titel	The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz
Auteur	Mortimer, Gavin
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0297846388
ISBN13	9780297846383
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, dust jacket, colour maps on endpapers, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The Blitz is one of the best known events of the Second World War. It affected more British people than any other 'battle': soldier or civilian, man or woman, adult or child -- the bombs made no distinction. Over 40,000 people were killed in the German air raids and many more injured. The scars on London took 50 years to repair and even now there are sealed up air raid shelters where the bodies remain entombed. The events of 9/11 highlighted the bravery of the New York Fire Department: yet London's firemen and emergency services did their jobs under a rain of bombs night after night, for eight months. Whole crews sometimes died as buildings collapsed on them: some of these heroes are commemorated today by having streets in the East End named after them. Gavin Mortimer concentrates on one n... (Lees verder)ight: the particularly savage raids of 10-11 May 1941 to reveal what it was like to experience The Blitz. Based on interviews with survivors, his gripping minute-by-minute account recaptures a time when the very survival of this country hung in the balance.
Pagina's	366
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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