ISBN10: 0813120764, ISBN13: 9780813120768, [publisher: The University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY] Hardcover First Edition 1st printing. Inked gift inscription to original owners on the front endpaper, elsewise a FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "Few historical images are more powerful than those of wartime London. Having survived a constant barrage of German bombs, the city is remembered as an island of courage and defiance." 230 pages. "Jean Freedman interviewed more than fifty people who remember London during the war, focusing on under-represented groups, including women, Jews, and working-class citizens. In addition she examined original propaganda, secret government documents, wartime diaries, and postwar memoirs. Of particular significance to Freedman were the contemporary music, theater, film, speeches, and radio drama used by the British government to shape public opinion and impart political messages." GN12
[Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]