Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London 0813184002, 9780813184005

Few historical images are more powerful than those of wartime London. Having survived a constant barrage of German bombs

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Interwar London after Dark in British Popular Culture 9783030949372, 3030949370
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Dark City: Murder, Vice, and Mayhem in Wartime London 0750989858, 9780750989855
Dark City: Murder, Vice, and Mayhem in Wartime London 0750989858, 9780750989855

There was more to wartime London than stiff upper lips and rousing choruses of 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Criminal

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Churchill's Bunker: The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London 9781846682315, 9781847651983
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Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture 9780755694044, 9780857722720
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Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during Worl

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The lost girls: love & literature in wartime London [First Pegasus Books hardcover edition] 9781643133157, 1643133152
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