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The Night Blitz: 1940-1941

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This book covers the Blitz in 260 odd pages (excluding appendices) and thus is able to provide little more than an overview. There is some discussion of the developing electronics war which is fairly interesting (although covered much better elsewhere) and the rest of the narrative is given over to a week by week and night by night recounting of the raids. This does rather tend to get a bit tedious after a bit. The author loses no time in announcing that he lived through the Blitz and it becomes apparent that his views on the subject have long ago been set in stone. He brooks no criticism of Churchill and, when he is forced to acknowledge that the populace did not face the onslaught with universal 'stiff upper-lips', it is clear that he does so grudgingly and with some irritation. This is the most unfortunate limitation of the book since it could have been much improved by combining the military side of the story with a more detailed and unbiased look at the effect of the campaign on the citizenry.