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Description: | This booklet is a cemmorative booklet issued to remember the Bltz on sheffield during the German bombing of December 1940. This booklet was published in January 1941 by the Rpinting and Stationary Department of the City of Sheffield and gives information specific to the blitz as it occurred in the city of Sheffield. The book opens with a report of praise from the King aand Queen after their recent Royal visit to Sheffield to provide their support and witness the effects of the bombing. The booklet then begins with reproduced letters between key figures on the emergency comittee of Sheffield and key members of the council praising the city's effort during the bombing. The book then goes on to detail the effects of the bombing and how this was dealt with. It goes into categories such as water supply and raod network and gives details on how these were affected and how the citizens of Sheffield dealt with this.
Booklet of Blitz edition. Stafford, Jan. 1941 | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Books | Temporal: | 1941
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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