The Three Nights' Blitz
Author : J. R. Alban
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Author : J. R. Alban
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bombing, Aerial
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Author : South Wales Evening Post
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN :
Author : J. R. Alban
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN :
Author : South Wales Evening Post
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN :
Author : David Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 9781905900213
Author : Mark Clapson
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1911534491
The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved.
Author : John Ray
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1909270768
September 1940: defeated in the Battle of Britain, despite their superior numbers and better equipped aircraft, the Luftwaffe launched a new campaign of attack, their target this time the civilian population. For eight months, with hardly a night's break, Luftwaffe bombers pounded industrial cities and seaports in a concentrated attempt to smash Britain's war economy and destroy civilian morale. It was the first time a civilian population had been subject to mass attack, night after night, and important lessons were to be learned on both sides. If this campaign failed - as it did - then surely Britain could win the war.In this finely structured and consistently fascinating study of the campaign, Second World War historian John Ray assesses the strategies, weapons and defence tactics employed throughout the Night Blitz. He graphically recalls the effects of the Blitz on British cities, industry and people, month by month. This was the war at home, when terror fell indiscriminately from the skies. Yet despite all the death and destruction, the spirit of the British people remained undaunted even in their darkest hours.
Author : John Ray
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780304356768
Defeated in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe crossed the Channel with a new plan in mind. For eight months, they ceaselessly pounded industrial cities and seaports in order to smash England's war economy and break the spirit of its citizens--who had never before experienced such a massive attack. In this finely structured account, a World War Two historian assesses the tactics employed throughout the night blitz and graphically recalls its effects throughout the country, month by month. Defeated in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe crossed the Channel with a new plan in mind. For eight months, they ceaselessly pounded industrial cities and seaports in order to smash England's war economy and break the spirit of its citizens--who had never before experienced such a massive attack. In this finely structured account, a World War Two historian assesses the tactics employed throughout the night blitz and graphically recalls its effects throughout the country, month by month.
Author : Malcolm Cowper
Publisher : Rowanvale Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1910832634
‘It’s now seventy years since the end of the Second World War, and those who lived through those momentous years are getting fewer in number each year,’ says Porthcawl author Malcolm Cowper, ‘so I decided to try to capture their memories before it was too late.’ He interviewed some forty people in the former Glamorgan county, and talked to men who served in the front line, women who laboured in the factories producing vital weapons of war, and children with memories of evacuation, gas masks, and nights spent in air raid shelters. The recollections of a man who survived the horrors of a Japanese prison camp, of women who did the dangerous work of manufacturing bombs at the Bridgend Arsenal, of a young boy in the Swansea blitz, wearing only his underpants and carrying his younger brother on his back, running for shelter as bombs rained down, and of a woman whose grandmother was buried under tons of rubble when the last V2 rocket of the war landed on her London apartment block: these are just some of the amazing stories in this collection. ‘Talking to the war veterans was fascinating,’ says Malcolm, ‘and I came to realise what an extraordinary generation they were, and how much we owe them for their fortitude and resilience in the face of one of the most barbaric and ruthless enemies this country has ever had to face. God knows how awful our lives would be today if we had lost that war.’ Glamorgan’s Greatest Generation is a collection of stories of ordinary people living through extraordinary times, capturing the comradeship, humour and sense of duty that carried them through fear, loss and sacrifice.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
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