‘We’re Not Jittery’
Bernard Porter: Monitoring Morale, 8 July 2010
Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour May-September 1940
edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang.
Bodley Head, 492 pp., £18.99, May 2010,978 1 84792 142 0 Show More
edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang.
Bodley Head, 492 pp., £18.99, May 2010,
“... authority did. In their introduction to this important collection of documents, Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang point out the ‘gulf of mutual incomprehension’ that separated ministers and civil servants from ‘the broad mass of the British public’. Ordinary MPs and the press thought they had a better grasp of popular opinion, but they may not have ... ”
