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“Calder’s subject is, on the whole, the story of official neglect which caused a temporary breakdown of London’s social services. Neglect by the Government to build deep shelters and to anticipate all night raids; neglect to equip shelters in advance with even the minimum sanitary and medical facilities and to provide more than Poor Law accommodation for the thousands of homeless produced by the first week’s bombardment of London. How bombing raids can best be met and minimised is the lesson of London which he draws.” 128pp. VG in VG dustjacket – wartime sociological polemic, in a series edited by George Orwell. Calder was also one of the leaders of the Aldermaston March. Scarce