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London at War 1939-1945: A Nation's Capital Survives

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London at War 1939-1945: A Nation's Capital Survives
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Bib. Number0023735

London at War 1939-1945: A Nation's Capital Survives

Author/EditorJEFFREYS Alan
Place PublishedLondon
Year
Date & Collation263pp.illus.
LanguageEnglish
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A history of London in the Second World War, based around the collections of the Imperial War Museum. A section on "Sheltering London's People" includes an illustration of Women and Children in the Tube (HMF 1726).  The work of the War Artists' Advisory Committee and Moore's contributions to it are discussed in "Entertaining and Informing Londoners" (pp.169-171), and Moore's Lyre Bird illustration for the cover of Poetry London (HMF 2062) is illustrated on p.193 in "Literary London".