Backs to the Wall: London Under Fire 1940-45 (1974) By Leonard Mosley
 
The story of London's survival under five years of German onslaught during the Second World War, 1939 -1945. Leonard Mosley bases his account on the recorded experiences of a diversity of Londoners and others including Churchill, Boothby, C. P. Snow, General de Gaulle and associates, a Notting Hill Social Worker, a Serviceman's Widow, an East End Policeman, a Fire-fighter , a Conscientious Objector, a girl detained under the controversial 18 EU Regulations, and extracts from Mass- Observation Reports in which Londoners said exactly what they thought of the war.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
397 pages
In Good Condition