Bull, John
The Night They Blitzed The Ritz
This is the Blitz story from a fresh new perspective - through the eyes of a small boy and his gang of streetwise Bomb Alley Kids. It was the worst of times for adults, thrust into the front line of the war by relentless night-bombing, with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. It was maybe the best of times for children, with every bombsite, aeroplane and wailing siren holding a promise of pleasurable terror. In this personal memoir, John Bull - a former News of the World columnist - perfectly captures the tragicomic, often farcical, events of everyday survival and the tribal stubbornness that stopped the Brits from 'chucking it in'.
Keywords: Blitz, World War II, Second World War, Home Front, Gosport, Hampshire, wartime childhood
- Author(s)
- Bull, John
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 161 pages
- Category
- Personal history
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781909183360
- Printed ISBN
- 9780956559500