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The secret history of the Blitz : chancers, outcasts and unsung heroes - life in the shadows during Britain's darkest days / Joshua Levine.
By: Levine, Joshua [author.]
.Publisher: London : Simon & Schuster, in partnership with Imperial War Museums, 2016Edition: Paperback edition.Description: 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781471131028; 9781471131035.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Great Britain | World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Psychological aspects | Great Britain -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941DDC classification: 940.5341
Contents:
A time of extremes -- Homeless and helpless -- Going underground -- Shelter life -- The Klondyke of the Midlands -- Striking oil in Sherwood Forest -- The Germans are coming -- The enemy within -- Bloody foreigners -- The first sexual revolution -- We're all criminals now -- Golden age of crime -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 940.5341 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016679 |
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| 940.5341 HOL Churchill's bunker : the secret headquarters at the heart of Britain's victory / | 940.5341 HUR The control of raw materials / | 940.5341 KOH Works and buildings / | 940.5341 LEV The secret history of the Blitz : | 940.5341 OBR Civil defence / | 940.5341 PAR Manpower : | 940.5341 POS British war production / |
Previous edition: 2015.
A time of extremes -- Homeless and helpless -- Going underground -- Shelter life -- The Klondyke of the Midlands -- Striking oil in Sherwood Forest -- The Germans are coming -- The enemy within -- Bloody foreigners -- The first sexual revolution -- We're all criminals now -- Golden age of crime -- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.