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Blitz : The Story of December 29 1940 by Margaret Gaskin (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100151014043

ISBN-139780151014040

eBay Product ID (ePID)52634168

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlitz : the Story of December 29 1940

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / General, Europe / Great Britain / General

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorMargaret Gaskin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0 in

Item Weight24 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-014787

ReviewsPRAISE FOR BLITZ "Brings the reader to the very heart of Britain's most testing time-London's harshest night-and does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life "London's Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."-- The Sunday Times (London), PRAISE FOR BLITZ "Brings the reader to the very heart of Britain's most testing time--London's harshest night--and does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life "London's Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."-- The Sunday Times (London), With block-by-block detail, Gaskin richly portrays London's civic personality during one terrible night in wartime., With block-by-block detail, Gaskin richly portrays London''s civic personality during one terrible night in wartime., PRAISE FOR BLITZ "Brings the reader to the very heart of Britain's most testing time—London's harshest night—and does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life "London's Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."-- The Sunday Times (London), PRAISE FOR BLITZ "Brings the reader to the very heart of Britain's most testing time--London's harshest night--and does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life "London's Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."-- The Sunday Times (London), PRAISE FOR BLITZ"Brings the reader to the very heart of Britains most testing timeLondons harshest nightand does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life"Londons Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."--The Sunday Times (London), PRAISE FOR BLITZ "Brings the reader to the very heart of Britaine(tm)s most testing time--Londone(tm)s harshest night--and does so in a way that holds the attention from the first page to the last."--Sir Martin Gilbert, author of Churchill: A Life "Londone(tm)s Blitz was a triumph of grim determination and jocular defiance, and Gaskin does it full and subtle justice."-- The Sunday Times (London), "With block-by-block detail, Gaskin richly portrays London's civic personality during one terrible night in wartime."

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal940.54/2121

Table Of ContentContentsIntroduction: Like the curtain of a theatre . . . , PRELUDE1Very Well, Alone,2Obdurate and cocky,3Practically no talk of horrors at all,4Old man of the tribe,5A leaning towards acrobatics,6Two opposing worlds,7Things had been wonderful,8You would not mind London at all now,9The Typhoid Marys, FUGUE10Boots on the lawn, boots on the wide stone stair, 11Goodnight Children, Everywhere!, 12Early English louts, 13Great sound waves washing over the city, 14It is going to be a warm night, 15As light as day, 16Burnt off like weed patches from the air, 17Blackwall Tunnel only, mate, 18St. Pauls must be saved at all costs, 19A ghostly pilgrimage, 20Like a sprig of holly on top of a Christmas pudding, 21Many fires about tonight, old boy?, 22The most beautiful thing I have ever seen,CHORALE23 Poor old London, 24 Lets not look back too much, CODAEnvoi: This is what weve been fighting for, APPENDIX A: The Arsenal of Democracy, APPENDIX B: What Remains Behind, Acknowledgments Illustration Credits/County of London Map/City Endpaper Map Index Select BibliographyNotesIndex

SynopsisChurchill called it his nation's greatest trial and its finest hour. Europe had fallen to Hitler and Britain stood alone. Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the "Square Mile," the heart of the city and the site of some of its greatest landmarks. In this gripping historical narrative, Margaret Gaskin puts the reader into the middle of the Blitz, its horror and its heroism, by vividly reconstructing the night that Hitler tried to burn the city to the ground--the night that one of the war's most haunting photographs was taken, showing St. Paul's still standing amid burning ruins. Stunningly vivid and compelling, "Blitz" uses the voices of those on whom the bombshells fell--the ordinary and the famous, including Edward R. Murrow and FDR--to tell the story as it has never before been told., Churchill called it his nation's greatest trial and its finest hour. Europe had fallen to Hitler and Britain stood alone. Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the "Square Mile," the heart of the city and the site of some of its greatest landmarks. In this gripping historical narrative, Margaret Gaskin puts the reader into the middle of the Blitz, its horror and its heroism, by vividly reconstructing the night that Hitler tried to burn the city to the ground--the night that one of the war's most haunting photographs was taken, showing St. Paul's still standing amid burning ruins. Stunningly vivid and compelling, Blitz uses the voices of those on whom the bombshells fell--the ordinary and the famous, including Edward R. Murrow and FDR--to tell the story as it has never before been told.

LC Classification NumberD760.8.L7G38 2006