Listening to Britain by Jeremy A Crang

Listening to Britain by Jeremy A Crang

Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period and published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the dramatic events that came to be known as Britain's Finest Hour, this title presents an unabridged sequence of the daily Home Intelligence reports that provides insight into the continuously unfolding drama of Britain at war.

The historical value of this evidence is enormous -- Noel Malcolm * The Sunday Telegraph *
This invaluable book brings us history in real timewith its echo of voices of civilians now on the front line, Listening to Britain provides a matchless insight into the contradictory, confused and complex experience of living through Britain's "finest hour" -- Juliet Gardiner * Financial Times *
Digestible form with valuable contextual notes. There are many fleeting gems * Observer *

Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang work at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh. They are the editors of The Burning Blue (Pimlico, 2000) and Firestorm (Pimlico, 2006), collections of essays on the Battle of Britain and the Allied bombing of Dresden respectively. Paul Addison teaches history at the University of Edinburgh and is a former visiting Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford. He is the author of Now the War is Over, a social history of post-war Britain which accompanied an acclaimed BBC television series; and Churchill on the Home Front, described by David Cannadine in the Observer as 'the best one-volume study of Churchill yet available'.

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ISBN 13	9781847921420
ISBN 10	1847921426
Title	Listening to Britain
Author	Jeremy A Crang
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2010-05-06
Number of pages	512
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