At home and under fire : air raids and culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Literature in context.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.