Artist: Various Artists

Title: The Blitz, Vol. 1: 1940-41

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2007

Label: CD41 (Uk)

UPC: 5024545472226

Genre: Nostalgia, Spoken

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Air Raid Siren: Alert
2. Tyneside Air Raid
3. Spitfire Pilot
4. Portsmouth: Shelter Damage
5. Bombs on Wimbledon
6. Ed Murrow in London
7. Black Saturday: 7.9.1940
8. London: Blitz Actuality
9. Winston Churchill
10. Midnight News 15.9.1940
11. My Bomb
12. Aa Battery: Hyde Park
13. Arp George Cross
14. Kennington Public Shelter
15. War Commentary: Night Bombing
16. Coventry Blitzed
17. London: Bombed-Out
18. Second Fire of London - Winston Churchill
19. Guildhall Damaged
20. Wren Church Destroyed
21. Archbishop of Canterbury - Edward R. Murrow

DISC 2:
1. Fire Bombs
2. News Bulletin 10.1.1941 - Winston Churchill
3. Bank Station Bombed
4. Nurse in the Blitz
5. Gas Works: George Medal
6. Police Rescue: George Medal
7. Raf Communiques
8. Lord Haw Haw: Views on the News
9. War Commentary: Air Defence
10. Cafe Paris Bombed
11. Costal Aa Battery
12. Winston Churchill: Progress of the War
13. Clydeside: Buried Alive
14. Night Fighter
15. London: Parliament Bombed
16. Clydebank: Bombed-Out
17. Afs Messenger: Merseyside
18. Arp Warden: Plymouth
19. Raid on London
20. 5 Minutes for Fire Guards
21. Mixed Aa Battery
22. Itma Interrupted
23. Air Raid Siren: All Clear

CD41 is proud to present a new archive audio CD, the Blitz, a unique collection of restored actuality and broadcast recordings from WW2. An evocative double-disc set, the Blitz (Vol 1) features 140 minutes of rare material recorded 1939 and 1941. Most of the 40 tracks cover the period of night air raids in British cities between September 1940 and May 1941, including the heavy raids on London known as 'Black Saturday' and the 'Second Fire of London'. All featured recordings are first-hand accounts made at the time, and include civilians, evacuees, ARP and civil defence personnel, RAF pilots, politicians, as well as actuality recordings made during raids and in shelters. Other historic recordings include a stirring speech by Winston Churchill, the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, an appeal for fire guards by Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and William Joyce, the infamous Lord Haw Haw. Featured correspondents include Ed Murrow, Robin Duff and Raymond Glendenning. All materials are authentic wartime recordings which have been carefully digitally remastered for CD. The booklet includes archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.