NP Non-heroic tales of the Blitz
Carvill John
johncarvill at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 5 15:11:15 CDT 2006
Excellent, anecdote-packed article from today's Guardian:
Sex, fear and looting: survivors disclose untold stories of the Blitz
The slackers, the looters, the promiscuous and the just plain terrified men
and women of the Blitz are finally being heard, more than 60 years after the
last bombs fell. The voices often edited out of the patriotic official
version of Britain's finest hour resurface in a new history of the Blitz and
the Battle of Britain, based on thousands of hours of recordings of
survivors, held in the archives of the Imperial War Museum.......
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1887666,00.html
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