TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clapson, Mark
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.16997/book26
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004949
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1105793550
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25144
KW  - Blitz
KW  - aerial warfare
KW  - air raids and civilians
KW  - Second World War
KW  - bombing
KW  - commemoration
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25144/1/the-blitz-companion.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25144/1/the-blitz-companion.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25144/1/the-blitz-companion.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39703
PB  - University of Westminster Press
PP  - London
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781911534488; 9781911534501; 9781911534518
TI  - The Blitz Companion : Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City since 1911
ER  - 
