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Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940

Paul Addison , Jeremy A Crang

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EAN: 9780099548744
Published: 5 May 2011

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From May to September 1940, a period that saw some of the most dramatic events in British history - including the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the opening stages of the Blitz - the Ministry of Information eavesdropped on the conversations of ordinary people in all parts of the United Kingdom and compiled secret daily reports on the state of popular morale.

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What the critics say

Digestible form with valuable contextual notes. There are many fleeting gems
- Observer

[The reports] offer an invaluable and unvarnished insight into thoughts and feelings about events without the benefit of hindsight... I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes reading non-fiction about the war or fiction set at this time
- Bookbag.co.uk

Fascinating collection of reports
- Independent

The sort of book that will have social historians salivating
- Literary Review

A strangely liberating and liberated catalogue of everyday grumbles, both great and small
- Mail on Sunday

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Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang work at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh. They are the editors of The Burning Blue (Pimlico, 2000) and Firestorm (Pimlico, 2006), collections of essays on the Battle of Britain and the Allied bombing of Dresden respectively.