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1 online resource (726 pages) |
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Originally published in German as Tod aus der Luft. Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; DEATH FROM THE SKIES: HOW THE BRITISH AND GERMANS SURVIVED BOMBING IN WORLD WAR II; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Preface to the English Edition; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; War from the Skies; The Battle over Morale: Methods and Perspectives; Aerial War, the National Community, and the People's War: Research Problems; 1: The War of the Future 1900-1939; The Shock of London; Visions of Aerial Warfare; Air Defence and the Nation; Germany; The Lessons of Guernica; Britain; 2: Bombing, the Public Sphere, and Morale; The Struggle to Win Trust and Maintain Morale. |
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Mass Observation and moraleThe 'air defence community'; The Policy on Rumours and the Representation of the State; A shift away from hushing things up; Evacuations and Rumours; Evacuation in the Third Reich; The Image and Memory of the War; Visualizing the Blitz; The British public and the bombing of Germany; Retaliation, Word of Mouth Propaganda, and the Struggle to Win Over a Sceptical Population; 3: Social Organization under a State of Emergency; Institutions for Dealing with Emergencies; Führer rulings and special agencies; The State and the National Emergency. |
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Marginalization of institutions by agents of the FührerJustice and Repression; Looting and criminal justice in Britain; War Damages and Wartime Morale; War damage compensation in Germany; 4: Cities at War; Preparations for War; Local government and the state in Britain; 'The national community at war' and air defence; Plunder and Aid; Local government and coping with crisis in Britain; The Extent of Damage and Interregional Strategies for Dealing with Crisis; German cities under a 'state of emergency'; Local Authorities, Coping with Crisis, and the Mobilization of the Nazi Party. |
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The Air War as an Opportunity: Planning and Reconstruction'Grand Designs' for the Modern British City; 5: The Churches and the Air War; A Just War, with Just Bombing?; Why Us? The Theology of War and the Destruction of the 'Homeland'; Day-to-Day Religious and Pastoral Practice; Pastoral care in Britain; Christian Iconography and Ecumenical Experience; Ecumenical practice in Nazi Germany; Loss, Guilt, and Reconstruction; 6: Fear and Order: Life in Air-Raid Shelters; Security and Unrest; Fortress and national community; Underground; The Organization of Fear; Races, Classes, and Genders. |
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Sites of protection, control, and violenceIconography of the Underworld; Sickness and Health; Shelter illnesses; 7: Experiences of the Air War; Wartime Morale as an Object of Research; War and illness in Germany; Speaking and Remaining Silent; A Time for Feelings; Everyday alarms; The threat from miracle weapons; Habituation and violence; Guided memory; Masculine and feminine emotions; Keeping on working; Children in the Air War; Fear and discipline; Children and their teachers; 8: Death in the Air War; Simulations; Recovering the Dead; Learning from catastrophe; Death and Mourning. |
| Summary |
The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass destruction never entirely died, and were partially realized in the VI and V2 raids of 1944-5. The British and American response to the 'Blitz', especially from 1943 onwards, was massive and incomparably more devastating - withapocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin, to name but the most prominen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the German. |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British -- Social aspects.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Social aspects.
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Bombing, Aerial -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Bombing, Aerial. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Germany. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Noakes, Jeremy.
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Sharpe, Lesley, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Süss, Dietmar. Death from the Skies : How the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War II. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2013 9780199668519 |
| ISBN |
9780191645563 |
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0191645567 |
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9780199668519 |
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0199668515 |
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1306188660 |
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9781306188661 |
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