EPISODE · Mar 31, 2011 · 17H 44M
The Blitz: The British Under Attack | Juliet Gardiner
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blitz: The British Under Attack Author: Juliet Gardiner Narrator: Catherine Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 31, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight months, the Blitz was a new and terrible form of warfare that had been predicted throughout the 1930s, widely feared since Neville Chamberlain's declaration that Britain was at war. Yet, compared with other great events of that war – Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, D-Day – the Blitz remains curiously overlooked; while the London Blitz has been much documented, there exists very little in the way of a comprehensive account of the Blitz experience as a whole – or of its social, political and cultural implications. In her new book, critically acclaimed historian Juliet Gardiner finally gives the Blitz the historical attention it deserves. Exploring this national story, she charts the impact of the nightly bombings on the entire country. And while loss and devastation affected the whole of Britain, the attacks also served to galvanise the nation: in the face of the terrifying Nazi onslaught, a new determination steadily emerged. Revealing, original and beautifully written, The Blitz is a much-needed re-examination of one of the most important aspects of Second World War history.
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