Add to ORKGDuring World War I, technological advances in air power expanded the field of battle beyond the front lines and British civilians previously insulated from the realities of war experienced a new threat from the air. This experience highlighted the impact of modern warfare on citizens and the need for greater home defense measures. Bombing attacks in Europe, Asia, and Africa during the 1930s further demonstrated this type of conflict, making British civil defense more critical. After nine months between September 7, 1940 and May 10, 1941, over 40,000 civilians perished from the bombs dropped by the German air force on Britain’s largest industrial cities. Much of the scholarship written post World War II attaches government failures to these ...
As a result of the first flight across the English Channel in 1909, England faced a new threat to it...
Both Britain and Germany participated in aerial bombing initiatives in the Second World War. Germany...
This thesis is basically about morale in Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth during the Second Wor...
During World War I, technological advances in air power expanded the field of battle beyond the fron...
Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first lau...
The 1950s stand out as a decade of traditional gender roles with mass media and popular culture cont...
This dissertation argues that the origins of civil defense are to be found in pre-World War II Brita...
This dissertation argues that the origins of civil defense are to be found in pre-World War II Brita...
During the First World War, several writers began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain w...
The Blitz was a roughly nine-month mass bombing of London and other cities in Great Britain by the G...
In the preface to the 1941 edition to his 1908 novel, The War in the Air, H. G. Wells wrote: ‘I told...
The development of new weaponry and techniques with which to wage war in the twentieth century broug...
Aerial warfare existed in some form long before the First World War, but it was during the First Wor...
First shown by Britain’s civilian population during the Blitz, this Blitz Spirit is widely understoo...
Perhaps the most definitive image of the Second World War experience in Great Britain is that of civ...
As a result of the first flight across the English Channel in 1909, England faced a new threat to it...
Both Britain and Germany participated in aerial bombing initiatives in the Second World War. Germany...
This thesis is basically about morale in Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth during the Second Wor...
During World War I, technological advances in air power expanded the field of battle beyond the fron...
Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first lau...
The 1950s stand out as a decade of traditional gender roles with mass media and popular culture cont...
This dissertation argues that the origins of civil defense are to be found in pre-World War II Brita...
This dissertation argues that the origins of civil defense are to be found in pre-World War II Brita...
During the First World War, several writers began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain w...
The Blitz was a roughly nine-month mass bombing of London and other cities in Great Britain by the G...
In the preface to the 1941 edition to his 1908 novel, The War in the Air, H. G. Wells wrote: ‘I told...
The development of new weaponry and techniques with which to wage war in the twentieth century broug...
Aerial warfare existed in some form long before the First World War, but it was during the First Wor...
First shown by Britain’s civilian population during the Blitz, this Blitz Spirit is widely understoo...
Perhaps the most definitive image of the Second World War experience in Great Britain is that of civ...
As a result of the first flight across the English Channel in 1909, England faced a new threat to it...
Both Britain and Germany participated in aerial bombing initiatives in the Second World War. Germany...
This thesis is basically about morale in Portsmouth, Southampton and Plymouth during the Second Wor...