Collier, Richard, - THE CITY THAT WOULDN'T DIE - London, May 10-11, 1941.

Fontana, London, 1967, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., #1498, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the worst raid of the London Blitz told by way of recollections of those involved and/or those who experienced it, chronologically through the day, on the very morning that the Minister of Home Security, Herbert Morrison, had announced the forming of a National Fire Service. Sadly that was too late for London that night as autonomous local fire authorities resisted sending engines to London, the fire service training was not standardised and and equipement did not necessarily connect universally, slant and wroll to spine, well rubbed at extrems., creasing and soiling to wrappers, chip lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, reading copy only,

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