The Blitz, A Very Peculiar History by David Arscott

Author:David Arscott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gift, information, facts, trivia, quirky, stories, world, war, bomb, blackout, evacuation, london, britain, england, destruction, survival, rations, hitler, churchill, blitzkreig
ISBN: 9781908759405
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

What the initials stood for

• ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service (Army)

• WAAF Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

• WLA Women’s Land Army

• WRNS (‘Wrens’) Women’s Royal Naval Service

• WVS Women’s Voluntary Service

Ten films about the Second World War

1. A Bridge Too Far (Battle of Arnhem)

2. Battle of Britain

3. Casablanca (Famous romance set in Morocco)

4. Sink the Bismarck (The Germans’ huge battleship is destroyed by the British Navy)

5. Stalingrad (The Eastern Front as experienced by German soldiers)

6. The Bridge on the River Kwai (English prisoners of war in Burma)

7. The Desert Fox (The battles of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, defeated in North Africa)

8. The Diary of Anne Frank

9. The Great Escape (True story of escape by Allied prisoners of war from Stalag Luft III)

10. The Longest Day (Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day)

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