England's Hour

by Brittain, Vera

• ISBN13: 9781585790555
• ISBN10: 1585790559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Summary

In the summer of 1940, with the world's eyes focusing on the dogfights in the skies over London and the south of England, Vera Brittain decided to document the experiences shared by the millions of civilians living through the Battle of Britain. Presenting the day-to-day, wartime life of ordinary men and women, England's Hour, which was originally published in 1941, is one of the most vivid and impassioned on-the-spot reports to be found in the literature of the Second World War.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xi
Displacement of Population	1	(6)
September 3, 1939	7	(4)
Blimps on the Coast	11	(6)
Winter Black-Out	17	(7)
The Blitzkrieg Arrives	24	(8)
Memorial Service for Civilisation	32	(8)
England's Hour	40	(9)
And So---Farewell!	49	(10)
City Park	59	(4)
Appellate Tribunal	63	(8)
Areopagus	71	(8)
``Fifteen Seasick Children''	79	(8)
Once Residential	87	(4)
Main-Line Terminus	91	(5)
The Raiders Come to Town	96	(5)
Suburban Aftermath	101	(5)
Warden's Post	106	(6)
London Under Fire	112	(9)
Anniversary	121	(7)
The Training Centres Carry On	128	(8)
Country Visit, Style 1940	136	(5)
British Morale	141	(6)
London's Hour	147	(8)
University Metropolis	155	(9)
Evacuee Depot	164	(7)
Industrial Midlands	171	(11)
Living Dangerously	182	(11)
Berkshire Village	193	(6)
The Ruins of Troy	199	(14)
For Ever London	213	(9)
Epilogue	222