Under Cover of Darkness – Murders in Blackout London - Amy Helen Bell

A gripping new history of London during the Blackout—revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness  Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circling above, but of violence at the hands of fellow Londoners in the streets below. Mass displacement, the anonymity of shelters, and the bomb-scarred landscape offered unprecedented opportunities for violent crime.... Zobrazit více