Bombing, states and peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945

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Bombing, states and peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945

edited by Claudia Baldoli, Andrew Knapp and Richard Overy

Continuum, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-355) and index

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This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ago European states destroyed much of the urban landscape from the air. There were many blitzes between 1940 and 1945 with an estimated 700,000 people killed. The purpose of this book is to provide the basis for a comparison of the experience of western states under the impact of bombing. In particular, it considers the political, cultural and social responses to bombing rather than the military, strategic and social dimensions which have formed the core of the discussion hitherto. This book will correct the popular perception of the British Blitz as the key bombing experience by exposing the reality of life under the bombs for communities as far apart as Brest, Palermo, and Rostock. An international panel of historians consider the issues raised amidst the bombing of human rights and protection of civilians in this seminal event in C20th history.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: The European Blitz
  • Part I: Bombing, States and Peoples
  • 1. Shelter Policy in Britain and Germany
  • 2. Life Under the Blackout in Britain and Germany
  • 3. Evacuation in Italy during WWII: Evolution and Management
  • 4. "Relieving sorrow and misfortune"? State, Charity and Ideology
  • Part II: Cultural Responses to Bombing
  • 5. The defence of artwork in Italy during WWII
  • 6. 'I feared/The photograph my skull would take': Bombs, Time and Photography in British and German WWII Literature
  • 7. Religion and Bombing in Italy, 1940-1945
  • 8. "Defend us from All Perils of This Night": Coping with Bombing in Britain, 1940-1945
  • Part III: Society under the Bombs
  • 9. The Direct and Indirect Effects of Allied Bombing on Civil Life in Germany, 1940-1945
  • 10. Post-bombing Evacuation and Social Solidarity in Wartime France
  • 11. Death and Survival under the Bombs: City and Country in Italy between Strategic and Tactical Bombing 1940-1944
  • 12. The Blitz Experience: British Society 1940-1941
  • Part IV Friend or Foe? Perception of the Bombers
  • 13. Anglo-American Air Attacks and the Rebirth of Public Opinion in Fascist Italy
  • 14. Muted Applause? British POWs as Observers and Victims of the Allied Bombing Campaign over Germany
  • 15. Criminals or Liberators? French Opinion and Allied Bombing of France, 1940-1945
  • 16 Newsreels and Bombing in WWII
  • Afterword: Bombing and the Human Rights Regime
  • List of Contributors
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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