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Prior to September 1939, the author had been fighting fires in the East End of London for fourteen years. On the outbreak of war he became one of the nucleus of professional firement preparing men of the Auxiliary Fire Service for the maelstrom of the Blitz. This work presents the true story of ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances who, with fortitude and great courage, became very far from ordinary.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Cyril Demarne had been a professional firefighter in the East End for 14 years prior to WWII and with war on the horizon he also had to train and prepare the recruits to the new Auxiliary Fire Service. Intense bombing of the city started in August 1940.
The book is densely written but very readable, with amusing anecdotes and many excellent photographs. The one that sums it up is on page 144 and shows St Paul's Cathedral standing amid devastation all around. It never fails to move me - how hard the firefighters battled against an inferno in order to save the cathedral, the greatest icon of the London skyline.
More than a memoir, this is a fascinating account of the heroism of the men and women of the London Fire Brigade and Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz.
The book is densely written but very readable, with amusing anecdotes and many excellent photographs. The one that sums it up is on page 144 and shows St Paul's Cathedral standing amid devastation all around. It never fails to move me - how hard the firefighters battled against an inferno in order to save the cathedral, the greatest icon of the London skyline.
More than a memoir, this is a fascinating account of the heroism of the men and women of the London Fire Brigade and Auxiliary Fire Service during the Blitz.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This is one of the best first-hand stories of fire-fighting during the London Blitz in 1940. The author was a pre-war London Fire Brigade officer and served in the West Ham area through the blitz of 1940. The book is short and to the point, but it clearly shows what was going on, the challenges faced by the fire service and the heroism that got them through some very difficult situations. All the more so as the majority of them were volunteers drafted in at the start of the war, so they'd never seen an uncontrolled fire before.
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