The Spirit of the Blitz: Home Intelligence and British Morale, September 1940 - June 1941

by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang

During the Blitz, the morale of the British people was clandestinely monitored by Home Intelligence, a unit of the Ministry of Information that kept watch on the behaviour and opinions of the public and eavesdropped on their conversations. Drawing on a wide range of intelligence sources from every region of the United Kingdom, a small team of officials based at the Senate House of the University of London compiled secret reports on the state of popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198848501
• ISBN13: 9780198848509
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"