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Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940 by Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang (view source)
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This book was a challenging read at times, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes reading non-fiction about the war or fiction set at this time, and even more to anyone researching and writing work set in this period – how useful to be able to immerse yourself in the mindset of a different era in this way. My rating is for readability, it would rate higher for usefulness to readers and writers seeking to deepen their understanding of this period. Thank you to Vintage Books for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
[[Our Longest Days: A People’s People's History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing]] uses lots of material drawn from Mass Observation. There are lots of good novels set during this period but one set in wartime Britain and reviewed here at the Bookbag is [[Run Rabbit Run by Barbara Mitchelhill]], a children’s novel about a conscientious objector and his children.
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