The Myth Of The Blitz

by	Angus Calder

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The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat by team work, improvisation and muddling through.In fact, in many ways, the Blitz was not like that. Sixty-thousand people were conscientious objectors; a quarter of London’s population fled to the country; Churchill and the royal family were booed while touring the aftermath of air-raids; Britain was not bombed into classless democracy.Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 – when Britain ‘stood alone’ against the Luftwaffe – and of the Myth which sustained her ‘finest hour’.

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Weight	0.442 kg
Dimensions	2.5 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm
by	Angus Calder
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	336
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	1992-8-13
Imprint	Pimlico
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0712698205
About The Author	Angus Calder was an academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor, and Reader in Cultural Studies and Staff Tutor in Arts with the Open University in Scotland. He read English at Cambridge and received his D. Phil from the School of Social Studies at the University of Sussex. He was Convener of the Scottish Poetry Library when it was founded in 1984. In 1970 he won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his seminal work, The People’s War. His other books include Revolutionary Empire and The Myth of the Blitz. He died in 2008.
Review Quote	This is a book written with style, scholarship and compassion, which can only enhance and deepen our understanding of a still critical episode in modern British history
Other text	Disturbing as it may be to those who were there, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz have to be understood on one level as media events, and this Angus Calder does supremely well

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