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The Doodlebugs |
Author: Longmate, Norman:
Description: Hutchinson 1981 1981 Publishers original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, small tape reinforcement at base of spine, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions, minor small mark to front endpaper. 549pp including index, plus 16pp b/w photographs, illustrated with line illustrations and maps within text, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Ask anyone who lived in South East England for their most enduring memory of the Second World War and the chances are high that they will reply 'the doodlebugs'. Those ungainly monsters which roared across the skies in the summer of 1944 caused more physical destruction than the Blitz four years earlier, and because they appeared only a week after D Day, when everyone assumed the war was almost won, they had a far greater impact upon moral. Norman Longmate, the foremost historian of the Home Front in the Second World War, ahs spent five years compiling this history. In addition to research in the official archives only recently declassified under the '30 year rule' he has used much little known German material and has consulted more than 1500 informants. The result is history at its most fascinating for, as in his earlier books, the author tells the story of what was happening at various levels, from Hitler's headquarters to the back street warden's post in Streatham. For the first time the details of many incidents, previously veiled by wartime censorship are now revealed.
Book Number: 0005991
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Price: $45.00 (AUD) |
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