by Juliet Gardiner · HarperCollins Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007386611
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«The Blitz: The British Under Attack» is the historical essay by Juliet Gardiner, published by HarperCollins Publishers in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Study of the German aerial bombing campaign against the British civilian population, begun in September 1940 and lasting eight months. It analyses everyday life under attack and its social, political and cultural consequences, and argues that the campaign, though devastating, ultimately strengthened the nation's resolve.
The work falls within the social and military history of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. This edition was published in 2011.
Aimed at readers of social and military history interested in the British civilian front.
Juliet Gardiner is a British historian and a commentator on British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s. She is a former editor of History Today magazine, a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and an honorary fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught at Middlesex University and Oxford Brookes University. Gardiner has also worked as a publisher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Since 2001 she has been a full-time writer.
