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Secret casualties of World War Two : uncovering the civilian deaths from friendly fire
- Title
- Secret casualties of World War Two : uncovering the civilian deaths from friendly fire / Simon Webb.
- Author
- Webb, Simon, 1954-
- Publication
- Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xv, 174 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realise, however, that these artfully constructed narratives of heroic resistance to aerial bombardment both conceal appalling massacres of their own citizens. In Britain, thousands of civilians were killed when the army shelled London and other cities in an effort to prevent those living there from fleeing the German bombs. At Pearl Harbour, American warships fired their heavy guns at the city of Honolulu, with devastating results. In this book, Simon Webb reveals one of the last secrets of the Second World War; the casualties which friendly fire' from heavy artillery inflicted upon British and American civilians. Although this book traces the history of bombing and anti-aircraft guns from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, through to the First World War, its chief concern is with the events of the Second World War; particularly the Blitz.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Friendly fire (Military science) > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Friendly fire (Military science) > United States > History > 20th century
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
- World War, 1939-1945 > Casualties > Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 > Casualties > United States
- Battle casualties
- Friendly fire (Military science)
- London (England) > History > Bombardment, 1940-1945
- England > London
- Great Britain
- Hawaii
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Chapter 1. A Brief History of Aerial Warfare Before 1914 -- Chapter 2. Friendly-Fire Casualties in Britain 1914 -- 1918 -- Chapter 3. ̀The Bomber Will Always Get Through': 1918 -- 1939 -- Chapter 4. The Outbreak of War, 1939 -- Chapter 5. The Blitz, 1940 -- 1941 -- Chapter 6. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Menace of Shrapnel, 1940 -- 1944 -- Chapter 7. The American Experience, 1941 -- 1943 -- Chapter 8. ̀The Worst Civilian Disaster of the Second World War', Bethnal Green, 3 March 1943 -- Chapter 9. The ̀Baby Blitz' and the Bombing of France, 1944 -- Chapter 10. A Military Development as Important as the Atom Bomb.
- ISBN
- 9781526743220
- 1526743221
- OCLC
- on1129891191
- SCSB-13563862
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library