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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