Blitz, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

The Blitz

Quotes

INTRODUCTION: Why the bombs fell

Death from the air

Chamberlain’s bit of paper

The Kindertransport

The Phoney War

Enter Winnie

Ten things to know about Winston Churchill

Dunkirk

The Battle of Britain

The Spitfire

CHAPTER ONE: Operation Pied Piper

The City of Benares

And the school went, too

Don’t like the look of him!

Country life

Nobody at home

CHAPTER TWO: Blown to smithereens

The planes out to get you

The bombs out to get you

London Blitz statistics

And it could have been even worse!

One’s house is hit

Taking advantage

A bomb at the palace

’Ang on a mo’!

The deadliest bomb

St Paul’s survives

Ten hit songs of the war

The very worst night

CHAPTER THREE: Taking precautions

Gruesome gas masks

Taking shelter

Bethnal Green tube disaster

Invading the Savoy

A sheltered upbringing

CHAPTER FOUR: The blackout and other nuisances

Wartime entertainment

The Blackout Ripper

The unhealthy blackout

Where am I?

Bamboozling the enemy

CHAPTER FIVE: The people’s war

Who had to enlist?

Who could stay behind?

What the initials stood for

ARP wardens

Messenger boys

The Auxiliary Fire Service

‘Forced labour’

Bletchley Park and Enigma

The Bevin Boys

On the move

Strike action

The George Cross

Women in wartime

What the initials stood for

Ten films about the Second World War

CHAPTER SIX: Advice & propaganda

What is propaganda?

Enter Brendan Bracken

No weather!

Some wartime slogans

Flying nuns!

Billy Brown

Some writers and artists who worked for the Ministry

Someone can’t count!

Artists at war

Mass Observation

Ten children’s novels about the Second World War

Desert Victory

Get the Coke Habit!

CHAPTER SEVEN: The cupboard was bare

How rationing worked

What was rationed...

...and what wasn’t

Lord Woolton’s recipes

The black market

Cheeky Chad

Wartime recipes

Threadbare Britain

The Empress’s New Nylons

Married in a parachute

Tiresome toys

CHAPTER EIGHT: Digging for victory

Plough Now!

Royalty sets an example

Walt Disney lends a hand

The garden farmyard

A Dig for Victory song

A wartime ditty

The Women’s Land Army

Fit for human consumption

Rabbit dumplings

CHAPTER NINE: Blitzed Britain

The Blitz in Britain

Ports in peril

A school playground rhyme from Bristol

Lest we forget

‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham

Resurgam!

Flattening the factories

Did Churchill know?

The ‘Baedeker Blitz’

Two German pilots

The Battle of the Beams

Coastal raids

‘Some chicken’

The end at last!

CHAPTER TEN: A new beginning

Two pieces of wit – and a big mistake

The first banana

Blitz Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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