At home and under fire
Subtitle: the air raid in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz
By: Susan R. Grayzel
Series: Literature in context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780521874946
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; German Aerial operations; Civilians in war; Military History; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Civil defense; Aerial Bombing; Civilian war casualties; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: "War has always had consequences for civilians, but during the First World War, air raids redefined British civilians' experiences and expectations of warfare. This book also demonstrates how the legacy of Britain's first air raids helped prepare civilians for the Second World War"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life; 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-1916; 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-1918; 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in Interwar Britain; 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come; 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids; 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids; 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions; 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions; 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz; 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture; 12.Conclusion: Air raids and the domestication of modern war.