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Reporting the Blitz - News from the Home Front Communities (Paperback, New)
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Reporting the Blitz - News from the Home Front Communities (Paperback, New)
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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"Reporting the Blitz" takes a fresh look at the home front during
World War Two, using local newspaper archives from around the
country to throw light on some relatively neglected aspects of
those years. It explores the unspoken attitudes and values of those
wartime communities; the ways in which local firms sought sometimes
unexpected business opportunities from the hostilities; how
officialdom and the local media sought to jolly the community
along, and to keep bad news from them. It looks at the bumblings of
wartime bureaucracy and the extraordinary extent to which the
wartime government assumed the trappings of a dictatorship. It sees
how people attempted to have fun and looks at the communities'
attempts to conjure normality out of the most abnormal of
situations. It explores how people managed to travel in the
extraordinary circumstances of war (or how they managed, if they
could not). It tells individual tales of heroism, greed, stupidity,
eccentricity and tragedy, many of them not previously drawn upon
for accounts of the period.
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