The Battle of Britain and the Blitz

The Battle of Britain and the Blitz is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum: Voices from the Twentieth Century. Using eyewitness accounts, The Battle of Britain and the Blitz relives desperate times in the words of pilots, ground crew and other airmen and women, firefighters, air-raid wardens, radar operators, land girls, evacuees and many others. The book is accompanied by a unique 1 hour audio CD, featuring, in their own words and voices, the actual reminiscences of many of these eyewitnesses, taken from the magnificent Sound Archive of Britain's national museum of conflict The Imperial War Museum. The CD, which contains material not found in the book, is further enhanced by the use of actual recordings of aircraft engines, gunfire and other sound effects, as well as songs from the period. The result is a remarakble work that vividly brings to life the months that saw Britain defined for all time as a country whose people's spirit was, literally, unbreakable.