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Reporting the Blitz

Name: Reporting the Blitz
Brand: The History Press
SKU: 39768367
Price: 12.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Stuart Hylton
ISBN: 9780752490878

News from the Home Front Communities

Stuart Hylton

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Libristo code: 39768367

Publishers The History Press, October 2012

Reporting the Blitz takes a fresh look at the home front during World War Two, using local newspaper... Full description

Libristo code: 39768367

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Reporting the Blitz takes a fresh look at the home front during World War Two, using local newspaper archives from around the country to throw light on some relatively neglected aspects of those years. It explores the unspoken attitudes and values of those wartime communities; the ways in which local firms sought sometimes unexpected business opportunities from the hostilities; how officialdom and the local media sought to jolly the community along, and to keep bad news from them. It looks at the bumblings of wartime bureaucracy and the extraordinary extent to which the wartime government assumed the trappings of a dictatorship. It sees how people attempted to have fun and looks at the communities' attempts to conjure normality out of the most abnormal of situations. It explores how people managed to travel in the extraordinary circumstances of war (or how they managed, if they could not). It tells individual tales of heroism, greed, stupidity, eccentricity and tragedy, many of them not previously drawn upon for accounts of the period.