Article: '[i]New book details life in the city and valleys during wartime[/i]' as featured by
South Wales Echo, 22nd February 2019 – words by Brian Lee
Article: '[i]New book details life in the city and valleys during wartime[/i]' as featured by
South Wales Echo, 22nd February 2019 – words by Brian Lee
This book is a fairly comprehensive chronological narrative of how the city and its people experienced the conflict, covering details of life on the Home Front set against the background global theatre of war. There are insights in to the city's life from memories and memoirs of individual citizens along with much from official records and local newspaper accounts.
Bristol & Avon FHS
This book is a fairly comprehensive chronological narrative of how the city and its people experienced the conflict, covering details of life on the Home Front set against the background global theatre of war. There are insights in to the city's life from memories and memoirs of individual citizens along with much from official records and local newspaper accounts.
Bristol & Avon FHS
All six chapters include personal stories of those people caught up in the various attacks, and are a powerful testament to the indiscriminate effect of bombing of towns and cities in war time. The use of area bombing by all the main nations involved in the Second World War remains a controversial issue. This book does not touch on the political aspects, but provides a very useful commentary on the subject in relation to one city, and the people who lived and worked there.
British Military History, Rob Palmer
All six chapters include personal stories of those people caught up in the various attacks, and are a powerful testament to the indiscriminate effect of bombing of towns and cities in war time. The use of area bombing by all the main nations involved in the Second World War remains a controversial issue. This book does not touch on the political aspects, but provides a very useful commentary on the subject in relation to one city, and the people who lived and worked there.
British Military History, Rob Palmer
I have just read Nigel Walpole's latest book; it was most enjoyable. The author weaves a fascinating tale of what happened in the Third Reich in the development of their Vergeltunswaffen as well as the impact they had on the populations in the target areas. It was interesting to discover that both he in North London and his wife in Holland had personal experience of the devastation caused by these weapons. The author has been painstaking with his research and included visits to Peenemunde, Mimoyecques and other sites in mainland Europe where these weapons were developed and from which they were launched. He has included many fascinating photographs of the weapons themselves, pictures of them taken by photo-reconnaissance aircraft as well as images of their various different launch sites. Along with the V1 and V2, he also provides details of the V3 and potential future developments of the V2 (A4) missile. As an experienced fast-jet pilot himself who also undertook fighter reconnaissance,.. Read more
Alex Weiss
I have just read Nigel Walpole's latest book; it was most enjoyable. The author weaves a fascinating tale of what happened in the Third Reich in the development of their Vergeltunswaffen as well as the impact they had on the populations in the target areas. It was interesting to discover that both he in North London and his wife in Holland had personal experience of the devastation caused by these weapons. The author has been painstaking with his research and included visits to Peenemunde, Mimoyecques and other sites in mainland Europe where these weapons were developed and from which they were launched. He has included many fascinating photographs of the weapons themselves, pictures of them taken by photo-reconnaissance aircraft as well as images of their various different launch sites. Along with the V1 and V2, he also provides details of the V3 and potential future developments of the V2 (A4) missile. As an experienced fast-jet pilot himself who also undertook fighter reconnaissance,.. Read more
Alex Weiss
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Liverpool Echo, September 30th 2017
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Liverpool Echo, September 30th 2017
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Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
This fascinating wartime social history accounts the establishment and use of Air Raid shelters in Britain during the Blitz of World War II. Chapters cover the nature and locations of the raids, the diversity of shelters and the 'culture' and nostalgia of shelter life. The author looks at contemporary developments such as urban archeology, and collecting… Read more...
This is a fascinating and highly informative guidebook to the Capital which will be invaluable to those who wish to understand what Londoners went through during the Second World War. By means of five easily manageable walks, the reader is transported back to those dark days of devastating destruction. Using rich anecdotes and first-hand accounts the… Read more...
