The Bombing Of London 1940 41 The Blitz And Its Impact On The Capital
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Author |
: John Conen |
Publisher |
: Matador |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1803134879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781803134871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bombing of London 1940-41: The Blitz and Its Impact on the Capital by : John Conen
A concise and balanced view of what is known as the Blitz on London. The title emphasizes bombing over blitz and recognises that the meaning of 'the Blitz' has now acquired other general connotations and is often equated to 'Britain in wartime' or the spirit of carrying on.
Author |
: John Conen |
Publisher |
: Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2023-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781803134093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1803134097 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bombing of London 1940-41: The Blitz and its impact on the capital by : John Conen
A concise and balanced view of what is known as the Blitz on London. The title emphasizes bombing over blitz and recognises that the meaning of ‘the Blitz’ has now acquired other general connotations and is often equated to ‘Britain in wartime’ or the spirit of carrying on.
Author |
: Julian Hale |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2023-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472857873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472857879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blitz 1940–41 by : Julian Hale
An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded. The Blitz - the German 'blitzkrieg' of Britain's industrial and port cities - was one of the most intensive bombing campaigns of World War II. Cities from London to Glasgow, Belfast to Hull, and Liverpool to Cardiff were targeted in an attempt to destroy Britain's military-industrial facilities and force it out of the war. Most histories of the Blitz concentrate on the civilian experience of 'life under the bombs' or the fighter pilots of the RAF but, in military terms, the Blitz was also the Luftwaffe's biggest and most ambitious strategic bombing campaign. Focusing on both sides, this book places particular emphasis on the hitherto under-represented Luftwaffe view of the campaign and looks at the new technology and tactics at its heart. From the innovative development of specialist night-fighters to the 'Battle of the Beams' that pitted German electronic navigation systems against British countermeasures, the Blitz demonstrated the effects of developing technology on aerial warfare. Describing and analyzing the strategy, tactics and operations of both the Luftwaffe and the UK's air defences during the period between September 1940 and May 1941, author Julian Hale demonstrates that, for a variety of reasons, there was little chance of the Luftwaffe achieving any of its aims. Using primary sources, spectacular original artwork, 3D diagrams and maps, this study shines a fresh light on how and why the world's first true strategic air offensive failed.
Author |
: Paul Addison |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2020-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192588050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192588052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spirit of the Blitz by : Paul Addison
During the Blitz, the morale of the British people was clandestinely monitored by Home Intelligence, a unit of the Ministry of Information that kept watch on the behaviour and opinions of the public and eavesdropped on their conversations. Drawing on a wide range of intelligence sources from every region of the United Kingdom, a small team of officials based at the Senate House of the University of London compiled secret reports on the state of popular morale as the Luftwaffe attacked Britain's major towns and cities between September 1940 and May 1941. Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, who tell the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history. Not only do they include in-depth reports on the effects of the bombing, including special reports on Coventry, Clydebank, Hull, Barrow-in-Furness, Plymouth, Merseyside and Portsmouth, but also insights into almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain as well as the response of the public to the shifting military fortunes of the war. Reading like the collective diary of a nation, the reports strip away the nostalgia that has grown up around the period, reminding us instead of the sufferings and sacrifices, the many frustrations and difficulties of daily life, the administrative bungling, the grumbling and petty jealousies, and the determination of the overwhelming majority to put up with it all for the sake of beating Hitler.
Author |
: Mark Clapson |
Publisher |
: University of Westminster Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2019-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781911534495 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1911534491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blitz Companion by : Mark Clapson
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 Philip Ray |
Publisher |
: Booksales |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0785816011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780785816010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Night Blitz by : John Philip Ray
In this finely structured and consistently fascinating study of the campaign, Second World War historian John Ray assesses the strategies, weapons and defense 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. -- from cover.
Author |
: Peter Stansky |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300125569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300125566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Day of the Blitz by : Peter Stansky
On September 7, 1940, the Blitz began. The bombing of London, by over one thousand planes on that night alone, was recognised at the time as being a direct measure to break the country's resistance. This book tells of the impact that this terror from the skies had on British people and the course of war.
Author |
: John Conen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1781553084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781781553084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Little Blitz by : John Conen
The Little Blitz on London in the early part of 1944 is briefly mentioned in most accounts of the aerial war against the UK during the Second World War but is seldom deemed worthy of more than a few lines. The Little Blitz is the name applied to the air raids on Britain which were the manifestation of the Luftwaffe's Operation Steinbock, planned in the last few months of 1943 and put into effect from the middle of January 1944. The raids, planned as revenge for the destructive RAF raids on Berlin, were mainly targeted London, and after nearly three years of respite from air raids, the Little Blitz was an unwelcome surprise for residents of the Capital. The offensive was largely ineffective but some of the raids caused significant casualties and damage, and some alarm amongst the population and the authorities. This is the first account of the Little Blitz to explore these bombings in detail and assess their impact on London. This book describes the raids, making use of some vivid personal accounts, to give a gripping picture of the effect that these little-known events had on a complacent city.
Author |
: Amy Helen Bell |
Publisher |
: I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2008-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131710019 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis London Was Ours by : Amy Helen Bell
This text analyses over 200 letters, diaries and memoirs written by those citizens who endured the Blitz, restoring the forgotten voices of ordinary individuals to the collective memory of the Blitz and World War II. Their writings reveal widely varying points of view, often at odds with official wartime narratives.
Author |
: Mark Clapson |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1409436985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781409436980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Blitz and Its Legacy by : Mark Clapson
The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.