The Myth of the Blitz

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by Angus Calder


  Ward, Russel, The Australian Legend, 6

  ‘Warth Mill’ internment camp, Bury, 113

  Wartime Social Survey, 116, 121

  Watt, Harry, 190, 195, 231, 232, 237, 242, 265; Don’t Look at the Camera, 228

  The Week, banning of (1941), 88

  Weir, Peter, 6

  Welles, Orson, War of the Worlds broadcast, 215

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 8

  Wells, Alan, 213

  Wells, H.G., 56; The Discovery of the Future, 181; War of the Worlds, 215

  Went the Day Well (film), 259–60

  Wessex Films, 261, 262

  West Germany, distortion of history in, 45, 48

  Westall, Robert, Children of the Blitz (ed.), 176; The Machine-Gunners, 176–8

  Westminster Abbey, 54, 77

  Weygand, General, 30, 93

  Whisky Galore (film), 265

  ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, song, 11 – 12

  Whitney, Raymond, 270

  Why We Fight (series of US films), 246–50, 252; The Battle of Britain, 247–50

  Wilcoxon, Henry, 244

  Wilkie, Douglas, 154

  Williams, Gwyn A., 68–9

  Williamson, J. A., The Age of Drake, 12

  Willkie, Wendell, One World, 58

  Winant, Ambassador John G., 213

  Windsor, Duke of (Edward VIII), abdication of (1936), 215, 235; Governor of Bahamas, 107

  Wingate, Captain Orde, 110, 206

  Wintringham, Tom, New Ways of War, 8, 9

  Wodehouse, P.G., 188

  Wolkoff, Anna, 112

  women war workers, 191, 229, 230, 239

  Women’s Voluntary Service, 62, 122, 180

  Wood, Sir Henry, 137

  Woolton, Lord, 132

  Words for Battle (film), 231, 241, 243, 248, 249

  ‘Workers Challenge’ station, German, 75

  World of Plenty (film), 246

  Wren, Christopher, 36, 250

  Wright, Basil, 190

  Wright, Patrick, On Living in an Old Country, 7, 9, 10–11

  Wyler, William, 244

  A Yank in the RAF (film), 249

  Yeats, W.B., 16

  Young, Douglas, 72, 74

  Young Pioneers, Communist, 68

  Ziegler, Frank and Margery, 35

  Zilliacus, Konni, 79

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