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Father Christmas battles through the Blitz

Jerry White’s vivid history of war-torn London includes descriptions of children’s Christmas parties organised across the capital by the ARP in 1940

Children enjoying a Christmas party in a London bomb shelter in 1940. [Getty Images]

  • The Battle of London 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire

    Jerry White

    Bodley Head, pp. 400, £30

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