Description: Previously published in hardback in 2017.
Brief description: Hilda Kean is visiting professor at the University of Greenwich and an honorary senior research associate at University College London. She is the former Dean of Ruskin College, Oxford, where she taught history for many years. Her many books include Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 and London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories.
Review Quotes: "The tremendous loss of human life during World War II has made this episode an unsuitable one to criticize. Kean's book brings to light an uncomfortable chapter in British history."-- "Wall Street Journal"