Zeppelin onslaught the forgotten Blitz, 1914-1915
"At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability worthy of the name. Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country and all but five of these were considered to be 'of dubious value'. So when raiding German aircraft finally appear...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Barnsley, S. Yorkshire
Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability worthy of the name. Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country and all but five of these were considered to be 'of dubious value'. So when raiding German aircraft finally appeared over Britain the response was negligible and ineffective. Of the UK's fledgling air forces, the Royal Air Force had accompanied the British Expeditionary Force into Europe leaving the Royal Naval Air Service to defend the country as best it could. From the first raid in December 1914, aerial attacks gradually increased through 1915, culminating in highly damaging assaults on London in September and October. London, however, was not the only recipient of German bombs, with counties from Northumberland to Kent also experiencing the indiscriminate death and destruction found in this new theatre of war - the Home Front. When the previously unimagined horror of bombs falling from the sky began, the British population was initially left exposed and largely undefended as civilians were killed in the streets or lying asleep in their beds. The face of war was changed forever and those raids on London in the autumn of 1915 finally forced the government to pursue a more effective defence against air attack. The German air campaign against the United Kingdom was the first sustained aerial bombing campaign in history. Yet it has become the forgotten Blitz."--Book jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 337-342 |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 356 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781848324336 978-1-84832-433-6 |