Word: collier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY THAT WOULD NOT DIE (280 pp.}-Richard Collier-Dutton...
...Cockney Courage. What a grateful family had to say about its rescuer was glowing enough to provide Oakes-to his immense surprise-with Britain's coveted civilian award, the George Medal. Yet the constable's finest hour, as British Freelance Writer Collier makes clear in his meticulous chronicle of a Saturday night during London's blitz, was only one of many. Despite such selfless cockney courage, when the all-clear -blew, 1,436 Londoners were dead; another 1,800 clung to life in hospitals. Nearly 800 tons of high explosives and incendiaries dropped by 505 Luftwaffe bombers...