
This is a book on how Londoners reacted and coped with the war and the Blitz from 1939 to 1945.
Ziegler cites from diaries, letters, records of Mass Observations where government officers eavesdropped and recorded the comments of Londoners throughout the war years.
This is a record of the ordinary Joes and Kates. Presented in chronological order it gives readers a sense of how Londoners coped. Readers more interested in how Churchill and his family lived and coped with the Blitz will be better served by reading The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson.
I recommend this book. A downside to this book is the absence of endnotes which Ziegler makes up by citing the sources most useful to him.