- Published: 15 May 2011
- ISBN: 9780099548744
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $19.99
Listening to Britain
Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940
- Published: 15 May 2011
- ISBN: 9780099548744
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $19.99
Digestible form with valuable contextual notes. There are many fleeting gems
Observer
This invaluable book brings us history in real time. With its echo of voices of civilians... Listening to Britain provides a matchless insight into the contradictory, confused and complex experience of living through Britain's "finest hour"
Juliet Gardiner, Financial Times
The historical value of this evidence is enormous
Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
[The reports] offer an invaluable and unvarnished insight into thoughts and feelings about events without the benefit of hindsight... I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes reading non-fiction about the war or fiction set at this time
Bookbag.co.uk
Fascinating collection of reports
Christoper Hirst, Independent
A splendid and absorbing book
London Review of Books
The sort of book that will have social historians salivating
Literary Review
A strangely liberating and liberated catalogue of everyday grumbles, both great and small
Mail on Sunday