The Shelter of the Tubes - Hardcover

Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 96 pages; Physical desc. : 96 p. : ill. , facsims. ; 26 x 23cm. Bibliography: p.90-91 Subject: Air raid shelters --Civil defense --Subways --England --London --World War, 1939-1945. Summary: The public invasion of the Tubes provides one of the most important civil acts of the war, and here in The Shelter of the Tubes the story of the extraordinary community that developed underground during the long nights of the Blitz is told in full for the first time, often using previously unpublished diary entries and government papers.