
Boy in the Blitz
Colin Perry(Author)
Amberley Publishing
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4456-0696-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is almost all of what survives of a journal Colin Perry kept between March and November 1940, when he was eighteen years old, written in his home in Tooting and in the City of London where he worked. The journal was never intended for publication, it is only the youthful, untrained outpourings of a proud and totally insignificant Londoner. It spans what the Air Ministry was to call '...the Great Days from 8 August - 31 October 1940' and the fifty-seven nights when the bombing of London was unceasing. This is the period enshrined in our history as the Battle of Britain, the most momentous year for Britain in the twentieth century. Includes 70 Photographs
Reviews / Votes
The most amazing record of war I've ever read - As The Diary of Anne Frank was for exposing the brutality, so this is for recording the excitement of war' * THE TIMES (BOOKS OF THE YEAR) * Fresh, alert and touching' * THE OBSERVER * Such poignancy' * THE SUNDAY TIMES * It tells the 1940 story of London with enormous skill' * THE BOOKSELLER *More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chalford
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
70 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
224 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4456-0696-5 (9781445606965)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
After his experiences in the Blitz, Colin was eventually called up and joined the Navy. He married after the war and has two children, three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He lives in Towcester, Northamptonshire.