Death from the skies : how the British and Germans survived bombing in World War II /

Death from the skies : how the British and Germans survived bombing in World War II /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Süss, Dietmar.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (726 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German -- Social aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British -- Social aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Social aspects.
Bombing, Aerial -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Social aspects.
Military operations, Aerial -- German.
Military operations, Aerial -- British.
Military operations, Aerial -- American.
Bombing, Aerial.
Germany.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954952
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Noakes, Jeremy.
Sharpe, Lesley.
ISBN:9780191645563
0191645567
9780199668519
0199668515
1306188660
9781306188661
Notes:Originally published in German as Tod aus der Luft. Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the German.
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.
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
Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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