Voices from the Twentieth Century by Nigel Fountain

Voices from the Twentieth Century by Nigel Fountain

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This series combines text based largely on eyewitness accounts lodged in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, with a CD based on actual recordings held in the same archives. This volume relives the Battle of Britain.

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Voices from the Twentieth Century by Nigel Fountain

By June 1940 Britain faced the enemy across the English Channel with an anxious sense that very little kept her from being subjugated by the overwhelming might of the Nazi forces. What rescued the country was the Royal Air Force's triumph in the Battle of Britain, and the encouragement and endurement of the people who lived, worked and suffered under the Luftwaffe's Blitz which, almost nightly from September 1940 until May 1941, rained destruction upon London and other major cities - only to do so again in later campaigns that culminated in the launching of the Nazis' V1 and V2 'revenge weapons'. Based on eyewitness reminiscences, The Battle of Britain and the Blitz relives those desperate times in the words of pilots, ground crew and other airmen and airwomen, firefighters, air-raid wardens, radar operators, spotters, anti-aircraft gunners, Red Cross, YMCA and other voluntary workers, and civilians - old and young, male and female - who between them helped to ensure that Britain survived to fight another day and, ultimately, to win.
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ISBN 13 9781854798565
ISBN 10 1854798561
Titre Voices from the Twentieth Century
Auteur Nigel Fountain
Série Voices From The Twentieth Century
État Non disponible
Éditeur Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Année de publication 2002-07-18
Nombre de pages 144
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