Full name: London 1945: Life in the Debris of War

Author: Maureen Waller Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312338046 031233804X

When Hitler unleashed a fierce barrage of weapons on the defiant capital of England, London's resilient citizens were undaunted. With colorful detail and rich insight, historian Maureen Waller takes readers through London in the last year of war. She reveals the magnificence of human spirit that carried a besieged people through agonizing travails and the long, giddy transformation the metropolis made as it passed through battle, to celebration, and back to life as usual. Similar books: London At War by Philip Ziegler Wartime by Juliet Gardiner 1700 by Maureen Waller The English Marriage by Maureen Waller Debs at War by Anne de Courcy How We Lived Then by Norman Longmate The People's War by Angus Calder Last Hope Island by Lynne Olson London by Roy Porter The Good Fight by Stephen E. Ambrose Old London Bridge by Patricia Pierce Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Blitz by Margaret Gaskin London characters and crooks by Henry Mayhew London Under by Peter Ackroyd 1939 by Anne de Courcy 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent