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Love in the Blitz

Author : Eileen Alexander
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006288882X
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Blitz written by Eileen Alexander and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared, Gershon heads for Cairo and Eileen forgoes her studies to work in the Air Ministry. As cinematic as Atonement, written with the intimacy of the Neapolitan quartet, Love in the Blitz is an extraordinary glimpse of life in London during World War II and an illuminating portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved ones are called up to fight, some never to return home. Written over the course of the conflict, Eileen’s letters provide a vivid and personal glimpse of this historic era. Yet throughout the turmoil and bloodshed, one thing remains constant: her beloved Gershon, who remains a source of strength and support, even after he, too, joins the fighting. Though his letters have been lost to time, the bolstering force of his love for Eileen is illuminated in her responses to him. Equal parts heartrending and heartwarming, Love in the Blitz is a timeless romance and a deeply personal story of life and resilience amid the violence and terror of war.

The Splendid and the Vile

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 038534872X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Splendid and the Vile written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.

The Blitz Then and Now

Author : Winston G. Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blitz Then and Now written by Winston G. Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1987 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day-to-day, blow-by-blow account of the Night Blitz. Beginning with the first mass raid on London on September 7th, 1940, the story is continued through the winter of 1940-41 with the description of Luftwaffe operations over Britain. The author's account of each night's operations brings into focus the details of the escalating attacks as one raid exceeded another in size, damage or deaths. Every German crash on land is listed with its crew, and footnotes are included on all those which are known to have been investigated or excavated since the end of the war, together with photographs of discoveries. Over twenty features and special articles by historians and eyewitnesses intersperce the daily happenings, illustrating life at the time on both the civilian and Service fronts, and contrasting descriptions by German airmen give the reader an insight into what it was like to be on the other side. The book presents a record of a period which changed the face of Britain and cost the lives of 40,000 on her people.

Beauty and the Blitz

Author : Sosie Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519008978
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Blitz written by Sosie Frost and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shatter the slipper. Spit out the apple. Fall for The Beast. All-star linebacker Cole Hawthorne is a beast on the field, destroying offenses one broken quarterback at a time. Though he's a gifted athlete, his violent reputation makes him a liability to his team and a villain in the league.As Cole's agent, it's my responsibility to convince the brooding loner that being traded is better than getting banished from the game. If he loses his contract, this single mom is out of a job. So, it's up to me to tame the beast.But the closer I get to the ferocious monster, the harder I fall for the passionate man underneath. He's crude and charming. Tough and sweet. Dangerous...but even he can't resist my baby's giggle. Denying my feelings might protect my heart, but the trading deadline is closing in. When Cole reveals the dirty truth about the trade, I can't let the league rip us apart. Do I save my career...or do I protect a man who deserves a happily ever after?Maybe no one can love a beast...But they haven't met Cole Hawthorne.

Facing the Blitz

Author : Jeff Kemp
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780764218309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Blitz written by Jeff Kemp and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Speaker Reveals That Every Trial Is an Opportunity A football blitz is an attack to force the quarterback into a mistake and create mayhem. But a blitz also creates an opportunity for the quarterback, as it leaves holes in the defense. What looks like the worst play can become the best play. During a life blitz--financially, relationally, spiritually, or physically--by taking initiative you can do more than just survive. You can grow, succeed, and advance. Jeff shares lessons learned through all kinds of blitzes. He teaches how life is about transformation and being others-oriented, and how having the right mind-set can turn fear and misery into courage, growth, and joy. Includes end-of-chapter questions. Now in paper.

Atomic Doctors

Author : James L. Nolan Jr.
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248635
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Atomic Doctors written by James L. Nolan Jr. and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.

The Love-charm of Bombs

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408833484
Total Pages : 827 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Love-charm of Bombs written by Lara Feigel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one 'like a love-charm'. As the sky whistled and the ground shook, nerves were tested, loyalties examined and infidelities begun. The Love-charm of Bombs is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Hilde Spiel and Henry Yorke (writing as Henry Green). Volunteering as ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now, opening with a meticulous evocation of a single night in September 1940, Lara Feigel brilliantly and beautifully interweaves letters, diaries and fiction with official civil defence records to chart the history of a burning world in wartime London and post-war Vienna and Berlin. She reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a war-torn world.

The Spies of Shilling Lane

Author : Jennifer Ryan
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525576517
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Spies of Shilling Lane written by Jennifer Ryan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty’s landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasn’t been home in days--with the chaos of the bombs, there’s no telling what might have befallen her. Aghast, Mrs. Braithwaite sets her bullish determination to the task of finding her only daughter. Storming into the London Blitz, Mrs. Braithwaite drags the reluctant Mr. Norris along as an unwitting sidekick as they piece together Betty’s unexpectedly chaotic life. As she is thrown into the midst of danger and death, Mrs. Braithwaite is forced to rethink her old-fashioned notions of status, class, and reputation, and to reconsider the question that’s been puzzling her since her world overturned: How do you measure the success of your life? Readers will be charmed by the unforgettable Mrs. Braithwaite and her plucky, ruthless optimism, and find in The Spies of Shilling Lane a novel with surprising twists and turns, quiet humor, and a poignant examination of mothers and daughters and the secrets we keep.

London Was Ours

Author : Amy Helen Bell
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848858497
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book London Was Ours written by Amy Helen Bell and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the nine months of the Blitz, London was subjected to a brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign, aimed for the first time in history at shattering the resolve of a nation. The Nazi raids on night-time London provide some of the defining narratives of World War II: the 'blitz spirit', air raid shelters in Underground stations and all the horrifying reality of one of the world's most powerful and historic cities under violent attack. This book tells the epic story of a London under siege through the voices of those that lived it. Amy Helen Bell here uncovers the personal stories of hundreds of Londoners from all walks of life, who scribbled in diaries and notebooks from inside air raid shelters and bombed-out houses to record their experiences of the Blitz. Expertly weaving these together, drawing out themes of loss, courage and love, what emerges is a thoughtfully argued and beautifully composed commentary on Britain's collective memory of one of the great conflicts of modern times. By letting the warmth, despair and hope of these personal recollections speak, 'London Was Ours' becomes a collective testament to the resilience of a people and a meditation on the nature of a nation's history.

Blitz Diary

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075246275X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Blitz Diary written by Mike Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 and bravery, the preservation of which becomes increasingly important as the Blitz fades from living memory. War with Germany seemed increasingly likely throughout the 1930s. The British Government and the general population believed that bombs and poison gas would be dropped on civilians in major towns and cities with the aim of terrifying them into surrendering. Today the Blitz, far from breaking civilian morale, is seen as achieving the opposite; it helped galvanise public opinion to carry on fighting the war. But in 1937, preparations to protect the population were hopelessly inadequate, and the British government was far from confident that people would respond in this way.

The Secret History of the Blitz

Author : Joshua Levine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471131033
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of the Blitz written by Joshua Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz Spirit' is often celebrated, whereas others dismiss it as a myth. Joshua Levine's thrilling biography rejects the tired arguments and reveals the human truth: the Blitz was a time of extremes of experience and behaviour. People werepulling together and helping strangers, but they were also breaking rules and exploiting each other. Life during wartime, the author reveals, was complex and messy and real. From the first page readers will discover a different story to the one they thought they knew - from the sacrifices made by ordinary people to a sudden surge in the popularity of nightclubs; from secret criminal trials at the Old Bailey to a Columbine-style murder in an Oxford College. There were new working opportunities for women and clandestine homosexual relationships conducted in the shadows. The Blitz also allowed for a melting pot of cultures: whilst prayers were offered up in a south London mosque, Jamaican sailors crossed the country. Unlikely friendships were fostered and surprising sexualities explored - these years saw a boom in prostitution and even the emergence of a popular weekly magazine for fetishists. On the darker side, racketeers and spivs made money out of the chaos, and looters prowled the night to prey on bomb victims. From the lack of cheese to the increased suicide rate, this astonishing and entertaining book takes the true pulse of a 'blitzed nation'. And it shows how social change during this time led to political change - which in turn has built the Britain we know today.

Under Fire

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781919623207
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Under Fire written by Naomi Clifford and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping eyewitness account of hidden impact of war on the home front during the London Blitz, based on the diaries of a woman ambulance driver. 28 inline illustrations 1 map

Hettie and the London Blitz

Author : Jenni L. Walsh
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1663914869
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Hettie and the London Blitz written by Jenni L. Walsh and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boy in the Blitz

Author : Colin Perry
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612321
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Boy in the Blitz written by Colin Perry and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only first-hand account of the Blitz to be written as it was happening.

Blitz

Author : Iain R. Webb
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851497232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Blitz written by Iain R. Webb and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, unique account of 1980s fashion and culture, as seen on the deeply influential, subversive pages of BLITZ, the pioneering '80s style magazine.

The Star of Kazan

Author : Eva Ibbotson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330477404
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Star of Kazan written by Eva Ibbotson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old. In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . .

Bertie The Blitz Dog

Author : Libby Parker
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1405928220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Bertie The Blitz Dog written by Libby Parker and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One extraordinary dog, a family in peril and a country turned upside-down by war. Can Bertie reunite everyone before it's too late? Stranded in a war-torn London, pampered Bertie is cold, alone and scared. Now that his owner has passed away he has to learn the ways of a stray dog on the streets. Luckily he has the help of his new friends in the community, both those on two legs and on four. But Bertie doesn't expect the Blitz and the horror it brings, or how some Londoners might start to resent pets in such difficult times. He also doesn't expect to find love again in the arms of one special little boy. When his second chance of happiness is threatened Bertie knows he needs to do whatever he can to protect it, no matter what dangers lie in his path. With bombs raining down on London streets, can this small dog with the big heart help the ones he loves before it's too late? Hopeful, heart-warming and fun, Bertie the Blitz Dog is perfect for fans of Alfie the Doorstep Cat and A Street Cat Named Bob