The Blitz
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Britons endured years of intense bombing in the Blitz, wearing gas masks, constant air-raid sirens and bombings. This book looks at how people coped and adjusted to the hardships caused by these bombings.
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