TY  - GEN
AU  - Clapson,Mark
TI  - The Blitz Companion : Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City since 1911
SN  - book26
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Westminster Press
KW  - Memorials, monuments
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Military history
KW  - Disability: social aspects
KW  - Air forces & warfare
KW  - Civil defence
KW  - Blitz
KW  - aerial warfare
KW  - air raids and civilians
KW  - Second World War
KW  - bombing
KW  - commemoration
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
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