England's Hour

In the summer of 1940, with the world's eyes focusing on the dogfights in the skies over London and the south of England, Vera Brittain decided to document the experiences shared by the millions of civilians living through the Battle of Britain. Presenting the day-to-day, wartime life of ordinary men and women, England's Hour, which was originally published in 1941, is one of the most vivid and impassioned on-the-spot reports to be found in the literature of the Second World War.