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The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'. In this title, the author presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the oddities and banalities of daily life on the Home Front, and in particular the parts played by ordinary people: air raid wardens and Home Guards, factory workers and farmers, housewives and pacifists.

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The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy.

Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of the Myth which sustained her 'finest hour'.

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Revisiting campaigns from the plains of Troy to recent events in the Balkans, this title examining how wars are represented and remembered. Angus Calder shows how the "facts" of war are transformed into myths that condition later responses to war, and how the construction of memory begins with wartime events themselves.