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The Blitzed Brits (Horrible Histories) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Terry Deary (Author)

4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Hippo; Reprint edition (20 Jan 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0590558250
ISBN-13: 978-0590558259
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 296,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is history with the nasty bits left in. What really happened to Dad's army? Want to know how to make a rude noise with a gas mask? This book provides spiffing slang, foul food facts about rotten rationing, and the terrible facts about London's bloodthirsty blackout murderer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Blitzed Brits, 7 Feb 2005

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The books in the Horrible Histories series are fantastic, because they are written to entertain children from 9-13, and are full of facts, cartoons, lists, pictures and quizzes. This book, The Blitzed Brits, covers evacuation, gas masks, bombing, rationing, and dozens of true stories about children during the Second World War.

As a teacher, I think it is brilliant because it makes the children want to read and find out more about the topic we are covering, it can be dipped into and the children are learning while having fun.

Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Blizted Brits is a fantastic book., 13 Jun 2001

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The Blitzed Brits is a fantastic read which uses a informal way of teaching history to young children (13-16). The book includes humerous stories based on real life events and quizes at the end of each chapter to see what you learnt, or just for fun.

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4.0 out of 5 stars ......`History has never been so horrible!', 26 Mar 2007

By	A B CeDar - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Can you imagine life without television, road signs and bananas?
Or only having enough clothing coupons to buy a small pair of knickers?
Not to mention the late-night bombing raids.
These were just some of the hardships for the people who stayed at home in World War Two - the blitzed Brits.

Want to know:-

what really happened in Dad's Army?
how to make a rude noise with a gas mask?
why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty?

Read on for some spiffing slang, foul food facts about rotten rationing, awful evacuation tales, and the terrible truth about London's bloodthirsty blackout murderer.'

A witty, colourful cover opens to 128 pages, split over 14 chapters:-

Blitzed Brit timeline
Beat the blitz
The bothersome blackout
Grotty gas masks
Blitzed Brit kids
Evils of evacuation
Rotten rationing
Rotten rationed recipes
The black market
Famous firsts of wartime
The Home Front
The Royal Family
Potty poems
Wartime words

with an introduction and an epilogue.

Written with the typical Deary humour, and illustrations from Kate Sheppard throughout.

`Did you know?
On Friday 1st September 1939 the service to the 2000 televisions in Britain was stopped. There was no television again until 1946.
Seven years without television ....
....today some people can't go seven minutes!....'

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4.0 out of 5 stars HOT OFF THE PRESS - REPRINTED EDITION with a NEW COVER
Can you imagine life without television, road signs and bananas?
Or only having enough clothing coupons to buy a small pair of knickers? Read more

Published 21 months ago by A B CeDar

5.0 out of 5 stars Putting historians to shame is the game
FANTASTIC BOOK
You get the feeling of being a blitzed Brit
or a child torned from family
Fact after fact and its a great read in its self
funny so funny... Read more

Published on 3 Oct 2006 by Clattybrown

4.0 out of 5 stars this is quite a clever book
this is quite a clever book because it is history and humourous it gets through to kids about the subject there for it is clever

Published on 27 Oct 2000

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