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Angus Calder was an academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor, and Reader in Cultural Studies and Staff Tutor in Arts with the Open University in Scotland. He read English at Cambridge and received his D. Phil from the School of Social Studies at the University of Sussex. He was Convener of the Scottish Poetry Library when it was founded in 1984. In 1970 he won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his seminal work, The People's War. His other books include Revolutionary Empire and The Myth of the Blitz. He died in 2008.
A radical historian looks at the accepted version of the Anglo-German struggle in 1940-41, early in World War II: when Britain survived air attack from hitherto victorious Germany, and was not invaded after all. Calder shows how the myth was fostered, points out some of the way in which it departs from actual past facts, and concludes that its survival has done some real and lasting good, by helping to break down class barriers: some of which were shattered at the time. (Kirkus UK)
