Research Catalog

Title

Death from the skies : how the British and Germans survived bombing in World War II / Dietmar Suss ; translated by Lesley Sharpe and Jeremy Noakes.

Author

Süss, Dietmar, 1973-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Sharpe, Lesley, 1952-
• Noakes, Jeremy

Description

xiii, 707 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Investigates the effects of mass bombing on both Britain and Nazi Germany, showing how these two very different societies sought to withstand the onslaught and keep up morale.

Uniform Title

Tod aus der Luft, Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England. English

Alternative Title

Tod aus der Luft, Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, German
• Bombing, Aerial > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Bombing, Aerial > Germany > History > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "First published in German as Tod aus der Luft, Kriegsgesellschaft und Luftkrieg in Deutschland und England."--T.p. verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The war of the future 1900-1939 -- Bombing, the public sphere, and morale -- Social organization under a state of emergency -- Cities at war -- The churches and the air war -- Fear and order : life in air-raid shelters -- Experiences of the air war -- Death in the air war -- Memories of the air war in the early post-war period -- Lessons of the air war.

ISBN

• 9780199668519 (hbk.)
• 0199668515 (hbk.)

OCLC

864787524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library