Listening to Britain - Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-september 1940

Informationen zum Autor 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'. Klappentext From May to September 1940 a period that saw some of the most dramatic events in British history - including the evacuation of Dunkirk the Battle of Britain and the opening stages of the Blitz - the Ministry of Information eavesdropped on the conversations of ordinary people in all parts of the United Kingdom and compiled secret daily reports on the state of popular morale. Zusammenfassung From May to September 1940, during a period that saw some of the most dramatic events of the war - the evacuation from Dunkirk, and, the Battle of Britain - the Ministry of Information compiled daily reports on the morale of the nation for circulation within Whitehall. These reports provide insight into the unfolding drama of Britain at war.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy A. Addison, Jeremy A./ Crang Addison, Paul Addison, Jeremy A Crang, Jeremy A. Crang, Paul Crang
• Assisted by: Paul Addison (Editor), Jeremy A. Crang (Editor)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780099548744
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954874-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949