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Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry by Perry, Collin [Albert] - 2001

by Perry, Collin [Albert]

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry by Perry, Collin [Albert] - 2001

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

by Perry, Collin [Albert]

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Oxford: ISIS Publishing, 2001. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. LARGE PRINT BOOK, Foreword by Dr. Christopher Dowling Director Public Services Imperial War Museum written in 2000, Very good orange pictorial hardcover. Light wear, usual ex-library markings, no jacket. (2001), 8vo, [5], vi-x, 310pp. [2], "Colin Albert Perry was born in Camberwell, London on 12 February 1922. In 1940, having left school in 1936 with no qualifications, he was passed medically fit for RAF flying crew but was rejected as not being up to educational standard. This is almost all of what survives of a journal he kept between March and November 1940, when he was eighteen years old, written in his home in Tooting and in the City of London where he worked. The journal was never intended for publication, it is only the youthful, untrained outpourings of a proud and totally insignificant Londoner. It spans what the Air Ministry was to call ' ... the Great Days from 8th August - 31st October 1940' and the fifty-seven nights when the bombing of London was unceasing. This is the period enshrined in our history as the Battle of Britain, the most momentous year for Britain in the twentieth century."--Publisher description

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  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Thus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0753196840
  • ISBN 13 9780753196847
  • Publisher ISIS Publishing
  • Place of Publication Oxford
  • Date Published 2001
  • Pages 310
  • Keywords world war II blitz london diary 1940 colin perry, battle of britain,
  • Product_type Ex-Library
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall