The spirit of the Blitz: home intelligence and British morale, September 1940 - June 1941

Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, this volume tells the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British du...

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Weitere Verfasser: Addison, Paul 1943-2020 (HerausgeberIn), Crang, Jeremy 1961- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, this volume tells the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history
Cover -- The Spirit of the Blitz -- Copyright -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- HOME INTELLIGENCE, THE BLITZ, AND THE BRITISH -- THE ORIGINS OF HOME INTELLIGENCE -- THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MARY ADAMS -- THE DOWNFALL OF MARY ADAMS -- THE DISCONTENTS OF THE BLITZ -- BEYOND THE BLITZ: THE HOME FRONT -- BEYOND THE BLITZ: THE WIDER WAR -- TAYLOR ON MORALE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- NOTES -- I SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1940 -- MONDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- THURSDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- LONDON -- FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 1940 -- POINTS FROM REGIONS -- LONDON -- NO 1: MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER TO MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 1940 -- REPORTS RECEIVED ON GENERAL MORALE -- 1. GENERAL COMMENTS -- 2. SPECULATION ABOUT THE FUTURE (INCLUDING PEACE AIMS) -- 3. ALARMIST AND DESPONDENT TALK -- 4. RUMOURS -- 5. ANTI-SEMITISM -- REPORTED REACTIONS TO WAR EXPERIENCES -- 1. AIR RAIDS -- REPORTED REACTIONS TO NEWS -- 1. DAKAR AND DE GAULLE -- 2. CABINET CHANGES.
Beschreibung:xlviii, 489 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9780198848509

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