At Home and under Fire
Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz
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At Home and under Fire
Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz
About this book
Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target of war rather than a group shielded from its impact. This is a study of how British civilians experienced and came to terms with aerial warfare during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British responses to the various real and imagined war threats of the 1920s and 1930s, including the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War and, ultimately, the Blitz itself. The processes by which different constituent bodies of the British nation responded to the arrival of air power reveal the particular role that gender played in defining civilian participation in modern war.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- At Home and Under Fire
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Modern War and the Militarization of Domestic Life
- 2 Destroying the Innocent: The Arrival of the Air Raid, 1914–1916
- 3 Redefining the Battle Zone: 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: Air Raids Abroad and Reactions at Home
- 8 Preparing the Public for the Next War: Air Raid Precautions on the Eve of War
- 9 Protecting the Innocent: Gas Masks for Babies and the Domestication of Air Raids Precautions
- 10 Responding to Air War’s Return: The Militarized Domestic Sphere from September ’38 to the Blitz
- 11 Representing the New Air War: Morale, the Air Raid, and Wartime Popular Culture
- 12 Conclusion: Air Raids and the Domestication of Modern War
- Bibliography
- Index