The historical value of this evidence is enormous

- Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph

Digestible form with valuable contextual notes. There are many fleeting gems

Observer

This invaluable book brings us history in real time. With its echo of voices of civilians... <i>Listening to Britain </i>provides a matchless insight into the contradictory, confused and complex experience of living through Britain's "finest hour"

- Juliet Gardiner, Financial Times

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[The reports] offer an invaluable and unvarnished insight into thoughts and feelings about events without the benefit of hindsight... I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes reading non-fiction about the war or fiction set at this time

Bookbag.co.uk

Fascinating collection of reports

- Christoper Hirst, Independent

A splendid and absorbing book

London Review of Books

The sort of book that will have social historians salivating

Literary Review

A strangely liberating and liberated catalogue of everyday grumbles, both great and small

Mail on Sunday

From May to September 1940, a period that saw some of the most dramatic events in British history - including the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the opening stages of the Blitz - the Ministry of Information eavesdropped on the conversations of ordinary people in all parts of the United Kingdom and compiled secret daily reports on the state of popular morale.
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From May to September 1940, during a period that saw some of the most dramatic events of the war - the evacuation from Dunkirk, and, the Battle of Britain - the Ministry of Information compiled daily reports on the morale of the nation for circulation within Whitehall. These reports provide insight into the unfolding drama of Britain at war.
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First publication of a unique resource that provides fascinating insight into the mood of the nation - at a crucial time in the Second World War when the conflict's outcome was far from certain

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099548744
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing
Vekt
349 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
512

Biografisk notat

Paul Addison (Author)
Paul Addison teaches history at the University of Edinburgh and is a former visiting Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford. He is the author of Now the War is Over, a social history of post-war Britain which accompanied an acclaimed BBC television series; and Churchill on the Home Front, described by David Cannadine in the Observer as 'the best one-volume study of Churchill yet available'.

Jeremy A Crang (Author)
Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang work at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh. They are the editors of The Burning Blue (Pimlico, 2000) and Firestorm (Pimlico, 2006), collections of essays on the Battle of Britain and the Allied bombing of Dresden respectively.