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A review by grayjay
Blackout by Connie Willis
2.0
As happends in each of the Oxford Time Travelers novels, historians travel to a time in Britain's past that they want to observe, prepared for every eventuality, and certain that they will be able to stay out of the action, and just as each other novel, they turn out to be unprepared and find themselves in danger of not being able to return, afraid that they have altered events that will affect their future—which they never have.
In this iteration, three historians travel to the Battle of Britain, one to observe the child evacuees, on to observe shop girls, and the other to observe the evacuation of Dunkirk—the theory of this novel being that the war was won not by soldiers in battle, but by the common folk of Britain with their pluck and stolid resourcefulness.
In this iteration, three historians travel to the Battle of Britain, one to observe the child evacuees, on to observe shop girls, and the other to observe the evacuation of Dunkirk—the theory of this novel being that the war was won not by soldiers in battle, but by the common folk of Britain with their pluck and stolid resourcefulness.