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British Civilians in the Front Line

Autor Helen Jones
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 mar 2006
This is the first full-length study of the behaviour of British civilians and their reactions to air raids during the Second World War. It unravels the multiple day-to-day, concrete and local influences on people's behaviour at these times of great danger, risk and uncertainty, and challenges the traditional image of civilians as passive shelterers under attack. It uncovers Churchill and his government's desperate attempts to persuade key workers to continue with their work once the air raid siren had sounded, and reveals the complex reasons why so many workers were willing to run such risks.

By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides a fascinating analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780719072901
ISBN-10: 0719072905
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 16 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 241 x 165 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Notă biografică

Peter Dale has a Ph.D. in political studies from Queen's University. After teaching for three years, he became a real estate developer, a private mortgage lender and a reinsurance company official. He is a registered BC mortgage broker with Yardale Mortgage Corporation and belongs to the Mortgage Brokers' Association of BC and the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals. He is a member of the Trust Institute of the Institute of Canadian Bankers. Helen Jones has been a real estate agent in Victoria, BC since 1974. In addition to managing a small real estate company, she operates a tutorial service that prepares students to write their licensing exams for (among other things) mortgage brokering. She is a Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of Canada.

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This book, the first full-length study of British civilians' behaviour in air raids during the Second World War, challenges a common image of civilians as passive shelterers during air raids.