Its May 1941: over 43 000 civilians had been killed & over a million houses destroyed following endless nights of bombing raids. Yet London & other cities that had been targeted survived their spirit undaunted their people resilient. Revisionist historians have sought to dampen the notion of the Blitz spirit but the writings & surviving records all point to a resilience that would remain unbroken despite the death toll rising to almost 52 000 from bombing alone. Illustrated with archive photographs & other materials & illuminated by first hand recollections of the Blitz" this human history of the bombing raids on Britain is the perfect introduction to this dark episode in British history." ...

As the Second World War loomed everyone expected it would bring a new kind of conflict to Britain. Raids by airships in the First World War & the attack on Guernica in the Spanish Civil War had given a terrifying taste of what was to come. So when war was declared in September 1939 massive air raids against civilians were anticipated. Cities & strategic ports were the first to be hit. London was a major target throughout the war. But it was not only the capital that suffered: on 8 November 1940 30 000 incendiary bombs rained down on Coventry laying waste to the city including famously its cathedral. Port cities such as Plymouth Bristol & Liverpool also suffered especially badly. In Blitz Diary" historian Carol Harris has collected together a remarkable series of accounts from the war's darkest days with heart-warming stories of survival perseverance solidarity & bravery the preservation of which becomes increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory." ...

From the dangers of London streets during the Blitz to working on the high seas in the Merchant Navy during the Atlantic Convoy children were on the frontline of battle during the Second World War. In Sean Longdens gripping retelling of the conflict he explores how the war impacted upon a whole generation who lost their innocence at home & abroad on the battlefield & the home front. Through extensive interviews & research Longden uncovers previously untold stories of heroism & courage: the eleven year old boy who was sunk on the SS Benares & left in frozen water for two days; the teenage Girl Guide awarded the George Medal for bravery; the merchant seaman sunk three times by the age of seventeen; the fourteen year old who signed up for the army three times before finally seeing action in the Normandy campaign; the fourteen year old Boy Buglers of the Royal Marines on active service onboard battleships; as well as the harrowing experiences of the boy who was survived the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster; the horrors of being a child captive in the German Po W camps. Blitz Kids" will change forever the way one sees the relationship between the Second World War & the generation
- our grandparents & great grandparents- who bravely faced the challenge of Nazism. Allowing them to tell their stories in their own words Sean Longden brings both the horrors & the humour of young lives lived in troubled times. The book

Includes:: stories of: the seventeen year old boy who signed up 4 times before he made it onto the beaches at Normandy; the Girl Guide who saved a family during the blitz; the teenage merchant seaman who was sunk three times; & what it was like to be a teenage POW after the disasters of Dunkirk."


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This volume covers the first year of World War II the period from phoney war to total war: September 3rd 1939 to September 6th 1940. Beginning with endless air raid warnings & a sense of unreality it was a phase which was to culminate in Hitler threatening to raze Britains cities to the ground. As a direct source of the day-to-day effects of Luftwaffe operations over Britain at the time the book utilizes extracts from the 24-hour log compiled by the Ministry of Home Security & this provides a contemporary diary of events as they affected the Home Front. These entries ideally form the setting for a detailed record of the losses sustained by the Luftwaffe over Britain & within sight of land: a barometer of the air war showing clearly the changing climate of hostilities. Every German crash on land is listed with its crew & footnotes are included on all the crash sites which are known to have been investigated or excavated since the end of the war together with photographs of some interesting discoveries. Also featured are articles by historians & eyewitnesses that interspace the daily happenings. ...

She made her way down the cliff & on to the beach. At the edge of the waves she stopped shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person but far far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur of uncrossable sea. She led the way to safety out of the blazing hell of blitzed Coventry. People touched her for luck; feared her as an omen of disaster. Wherever she went she changed lives... From her beginning to her end she never wavered. She was the Blitzcat. Westalls writing has always been strong & vivid but he has rarely written as confidently as this."
- " Times Literary Supplement"."
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The Fuhrers commands were simple
- forward to Moscow! & so the mighty Panzer regiments thundered into action
- killing raping

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On the night of 22-23 April 1918 the Royal Navy carried out a raid on the German held ports of Zeebrugge & Ostend
- Operation Z-O.
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Blodin the Beast stalks the land breathing fire & razing villages to ruins. Who or what can end this tyranny? Only wise old Shanga weaving his strange carpet knows how to destroy the monster
- but he is too old to cross the mountains that never end... Michael Morpurgos timeless story of a young boys quest to save his people illustrated with Christina Balits glowing mosaic-like paintings will entrance children of every age.
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' Protected Witness Unit (PWU): Designed to hold prisoners who are giving evidence or assistance to the police in cases of serious crime. All inmates are known to staff simply as ' Bloggs' followed by a number...' In December 1995 the bodies of three men were discovered in a Range Rover in a quiet country lane in the Essex village of Rettendon. All three were well-known villains & had each been blasted in the head with a shotgun at point-blank range. One member of the gang decided to break ranks & tell all. The story Darren Nicholls told at first seemed too incredible to be believed. But as the evidence to support his version of events began to mount up the motives behind the brutal murder became increasingly clear. The plot Nicholls eventually uncovered involved everything from Irish terror groups & European smuggling rings to prostitution & police corruption. Bloggs 19 chronicles the rise of some of Britain's most powerful & notorious villains & of the man whose betrayal led to their downfall
- arguably the most important supergrass since the time of the Kray Twins.
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