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At home and under fire : air raids and culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz / Susan R. Grayzel.

By: Grayzel, Susan RSeries: Literature in contextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2011. Description: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780521874946 (hbk.) :; 0521874947 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Civil defense -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Civil defense -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Bombing, Aerial -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Bombing, Aerial -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Civilians in war -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Civilian war casualties -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, German | World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German | Great Britain -- History, MilitaryDDC classification: 363.35094109041
Contents:
Introduction: modern war and the militarization of domestic life -- Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-1916 -- Redefining the battle zone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-1918 -- Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in Interwar Britain -- Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come -- Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids -- Facing the future of air power: air raids at abroad and reactions at home -- Preparing the public for the next war: air raid precautions on the eve of war -- Protecting the innocent: gas masks for babies and the domestication of air raid precautions -- Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from September '28 to the Blitz -- Representing the new air war: morale, the air raid, and wartime popular culture -- Conclusion: Air raids and the domestication of modern war.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-334) and index.

Introduction: modern war and the militarization of domestic life -- Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-1916 -- Redefining the battle zone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-1918 -- Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in Interwar Britain -- Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come -- Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids -- Facing the future of air power: air raids at abroad and reactions at home -- Preparing the public for the next war: air raid precautions on the eve of war -- Protecting the innocent: gas masks for babies and the domestication of air raid precautions -- Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from September '28 to the Blitz -- Representing the new air war: morale, the air raid, and wartime popular culture -- Conclusion: Air raids and the domestication of modern war.