The Blitz: The British Under Attack

About this book

With the onslaught on Britains major cities which began in September 1940 the Nazis aimed to break morale and to destroy the countrys capacity to wage war. Using evidence from a range of public and private documents Juliet Gardiner shows how the attacks instead engendered a stubborn resolve in the British populace and prompted them to develop innovative survival strategies. But her history does not ignore the darker underside of the Blitz from official incompetence and mismanagement to outright profiteering and crime.