Reporting the Blitz

News from the Home Front Communities

Nonfiction, History, Military, World War II
Cover of the book Reporting the Blitz by Stuart Hylton, The History Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Stuart Hylton ISBN: 9780752490878
Publisher: The History Press Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Stuart Hylton
ISBN: 9780752490878
Publisher: The History Press
Publication: October 1, 2012
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from The History Press

Cover of the book Exploring Historical Cambridgeshire by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Blue Beast by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Cavan Folk Tales by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Last Nazis by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Tudors in 100 Objects by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Death in Bayswater by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Great British Christmas by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Little Book of Dundrum by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Little Book of Carmarthenshire by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book VCs of the First World War: 1915 The Western Front by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Prehistoric Belief by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Clare Folk Tales by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book Mosquito Story by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book For Fuhrer & Fatherland by Stuart Hylton
Cover of the book From Cabin ‘Boys' to Captains by Stuart Hylton
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy