By Luke Amrine (student Autumn 2020)
“Keep calm and carry on” is what one thinks of when imagining how Londoners and others in Great Britain survived during the Blitz, a months long German bombing campaign designed to break British morale. This podcast looks critically at the accuracy of this statement and explores what circumstances were truly like during this harrowing and disastrous period of the Second World War.
Listen to The Blitz: Re-Evaluating the Public Morale of London here.
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