Ebook: The blitz: the British under attack
Author: Gardiner Juliet
- Tags: World War 1939-1945--Aerial operations German, World War 1939-1945--Campaigns--Great Britain, Military campaigns, Military operations Aerial--German, History, World War 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations German, World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Great Britain, London (England) -- History -- Bombardment 1940-1945, Military operations Aerial -- German, England -- London, Great Britain
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- City: London;London (England);England;Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
The blitz proved to be a highly effective laboratory constructed out of necessity, and intense forcing house for change. Yet, compared to other great events of the Second World War Dunkirk, D-Day, and even VE Day, the Blitz remains curiously unexamined. A type of cleansing resulted from it. It soon became evident that many of the attitudes in society were outdated. The most obvious inequalities between British society also became clear, and yet with everyone sharing the same devastation, these differences slowly began to lose their importance. As well as a social laboratory, the Blitz was a medical one too. Overworked doctors and scientists were forced to experiment and improvise. It was during the Blitz that the embryonic blood transfusion service grew to become a nation-wide institution. Psychoanalysis took on a new meaning too: the enemy was now external, someone different from "us". It gave coherence to artists and writers at the time such as Cecil Beaton. The...