Zeppelin Nights by Jerry White
A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2014 11pm, Tuesday 4 August 1914: with the declaration of war London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history.-
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The Radio Eye
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Two Bicycles
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Revisioning Europe
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Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990
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Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best.. White creates a vivid picture of a city changed for ever by war -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
Jerry White's name on a title page is a guarantee of a lively, compassionate book full of striking incidents and memorable images... This is a fast-paced social history that never stumbles... A well-orchestrated polyphony of voices that brings history alive -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Guardian *
White delivers in brilliant time-eclipsing detail an evolving and often deeply moving portrait of a city that became gradually squeezed to its limits -- Juliet Nicolson * Sunday Telegraph *
Jerry White is masterful at mixing hard facts and statistics with telling anecdotes -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
A superbly detailed account... Professor White has written a fine social history that portrays London as a teeming nerve centre of the Allied war effort -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times *
Jerry White's name on a title page is a guarantee of a lively, compassionate book full of striking incidents and memorable images... This is a fast-paced social history that never stumbles... A well-orchestrated polyphony of voices that brings history alive -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Guardian *
White delivers in brilliant time-eclipsing detail an evolving and often deeply moving portrait of a city that became gradually squeezed to its limits -- Juliet Nicolson * Sunday Telegraph *
Jerry White is masterful at mixing hard facts and statistics with telling anecdotes -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
A superbly detailed account... Professor White has written a fine social history that portrays London as a teeming nerve centre of the Allied war effort -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times *
Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847921659 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847921655 |
| Title | Zeppelin Nights |
| Author | Jerry White |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Spears Book Award for Social History 2014 (UK) |
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