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The First Day of the Blitz (Hardcover)

by Peter Stansky (Author)
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'He offers a vivid account of how Londoners withstood attack. Recent events have shown how that resilient spirit lives into our own day.' --Literary Review, September 2007

'From the ruins of these buildings levelled on that first night, the myth of the Blitz, still potent today, arose. Stansky makes well-judged use of eyewitness acounts to highlight the reality beyond that myth.' --Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

'...Stansky has trawled both the available British and American Blitz literature - especially writer-witnesses such as George Orwell and Vera Brittain - and the unpublished accounts of humbler folk. The result is a competent and workmanlike survey of the most traumatic day in London's long life.' --Sunday Telegraph, September 23, 2007


Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

"From the ruins of these buildings levelled on that first night, the myth of the Blitz, still potent today, arose. Stansky makes well-judged use of eyewitness accounts to highlight the reality behind that myth."

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