“Blitz"
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The Inside Story Of T?
DO you want a thoroughly frank, f quently humorous and always u expurgated account of what II been happening, beneath the surface, Britain, since the “blitzes” started September, 1940? If so, you will re Quentin Reynolds’s “London Diary”, j published in Sydney by Angus and Ro ertson at 8/6.
Reynolds is one of America’s grt newspaper-men, and he often is heard broadcasts from London. In this be (not written originally for publicatic he tells you of the bravery of ordins people when the streets are full of bom and death, and what happens when classes and ages and sexes sleep togeth in the shelters; he describes the e] courage and endurance of the Engll boys who fly the Hurricanes and Spc fires, and prints their songs, bawdy, b intensely funny. He gives you intims pen pictures of Britain’s leaders, aj exposes mercilessly the idols’ feet of cl) Through it all, there runs the amazii exciting story of how London’s jourm. ists, in defiance of crashing masonry aj smashed communications, gather ti news and distribute it to the world.