Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery- A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Jerry White is one of London's best historians...and in this
enveloping book he tries to scrape away the myths that have
obscured our view of the Second World War and reintroduce us to
what life in the city between 1939 and 1945 was actually like
*Sunday Times*
The Battle of London 1939-45... benefits hugely from a vast and
well-chosen range of quotes and anecdotes, conjuring the atmosphere
of a city under siege with vivid force. What's most striking in
this raw and comprehensive portrait of a city on fire is just how
enchanting and appealing it is: you actually start wishing you had
been alive to witness it
*Tablet*
[An] impressive history of the capital at war... White, an
accomplished chronicler of London's history, tells it with brio and
a confident mastery of the sources. He has a good nose for a
piquant anecdote and clear-eyed awareness of the failings as well
as the fearlessness of Londoners
*Literary Review*
Jerry White has a unique relation to London and Londoners. More
than a historian, he is the city's witness, champion and
town-crier... White does not rehearse the cliché of the Blitz
spirit. Instead, by giving narrative commentary to the bit players
in the drama...he presents a more complex, bleak and confused
tale
*Oldie*
As a history of the capital in wartime, it is probably
unsurpassable... From the Myra Hess lunchtime concerts at the
National Gallery, to the extraordinary resilience and bravery of
Londoners... all can be found in this book
*Sunday Telegraph*
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