At 11 a.m. on 3rd September, 1939, Neville Chamberlain announced that Britain was at war.  Shortly afterwards, he left Downing Street -, cheered by the crowds' - said the B.B.C....

Living through the Blitz

History

Harrisson, Tom

Europe

Collins

War Factory

Politics & Social Sciences

FREMLIN, Celia

Social Sciences

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

In the mid-1930s Tom Harrison, under the auspices of the Oxford Exploration Club, organized an expedition into the jungles of Borneo. The young men who went with him included Edward Shackleton, son of the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton, and Patrick M. Synge, cousin of the Irish playwright. Together they spent six months among the Kayans, Kenyahs and the nomadic Punans, drank their rice spirit to the accompaniment of haunting chants, danced and sang, blew poisoned darts from the blow-pipe, were tattoed, and dwelt in longhouses whose features included chandeliers of human heads.

Borneo Jungle: An Account of the Oxford University Expedition of 1932

Oxford University Press

<p>Interviews with those who experienced the German blitz during World War II describes what they thought and did during that tragic period</p>

LIVING THROUGH THE BLITZ (Witnesses to War)

Schocken

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