Blitz: When World War Two Came Home (Signed Preorder Released after Event 21st May 2026)

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In BLITZ, Sunday Times bestseller John Nichol, tells the stories of the mothers, wives and children caught on the Home Front during the Second World War onslaught of German air raids and bombings. Beginning with a search to understand his mother’s experiences of the blitz on Tyneside, and drawing on fragments of memory and the unanswered questions she left behind, John uses the astonishing reminiscences of 99-year-old great-grandmother Millie Matthews’ life in the north to shine light on the horrors so many endured, and only some survived.

He examines the experiences of the child evacuees, some only a few years old, who were moved from their families in the industrial centres into the supposed safety of the countryside. Incredibly, some were only a few years old and a few would not see their own parents for years. Not all had the wonderful experience portrayed in the media.

At once gripping and compassionate, BLITZ is the definitive account of a nationwide struggle that shaped the course of the war and the spirit of a generation.

‘The story of a whole nation as only Nichol can write, BLITZ is a wonderful book perfectly anchored in the human experience’ Dr Robert Lyman MBE FRHistS, co-author of Victory to Defeat