Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945
by Baldoli, Claudia; Knapp, Andrew; Overy, RichardFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-09-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the ls"Blitzrs" on Britain and Germany.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements \ List of Illustrations \ Introduction: Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945 <em>Richard Overy</em> \ <strong>Part I: States and Peoples</strong> \ 1. Wartime Societies and Shelter Politics in Germany and Britain <em>Dietmar Suess</em> \ 2. The Blackout and the Idea of Community&<60;in Britain and Germany <em>Marc Wiggam</em> \ 3. Evacuation in Italy during the Second World War: Evolution and Management <em>Elena Cortesi</em> \ 4.'Relieving Sorrow and Misfortune'? State, Charity, Ideology and Aid in Bombed-out France <em>Lindsey Dodd</em> \ <strong>Part II: Cultural Responses to Bombing</strong> \ 5. The Defence of Artwork from Bombing in Italy during the Second World War <em>Marta Nezzo</em> \ 6. 'I Feared/The Photograph my Skull would Take': Bombs, Time and Photography in British and German Second World War Literature <em>Lara Feigel</em> \ 7. Religion and Bombing in Italy, 1940-1945 <em>Claudia Baldoli</em> \ 8. 'Defend us from All Perils of This Night': Coping with Bombing in Britain, 1940-1945 <em>Vanessa Chambers</em> \ <strong>Part III: Society in the Bombing War</strong> \ 9. The Blitz Experience: British Society 1940-41 <em>Juliet Gardiner</em> \ 10. The Allied Air War and German Society <em>Stephan Glienke</em> \ 11. Orchestrated Solidarity: The Allied Air War in France and the Development of Local and State-Organized Solidarity Movements <em>Michael Schmiedel</em> \ 12. Death and Survival under the Bombs: City and Country in Italy between Strategic and Tactical Bombing 1940-1944 <em>Gabriella Gribaudi</em> \ <strong>Part IV Friend or Foe? Popular Perceptions of Bombing</strong> \ 13. Anglo-American Air Attacks and the Rebirth of Public Opinion in Fascist Italy <em>Marco Fincardi</em> \ 14. Muted Applause? British Prisoners-of-War as Observers and Victims of the Allied Bombing Campaign over Germany <em>Neville Wylie</em> \ 15. Criminals or Liberators? French Opinion and Allied Bombing of France, 1940-1945 <em>Simon Kitson</em> \ 16. A Comparative Approach to Newsreels and Bombing in the Second World War: Britain, France, Germany <em>Olivier Dumoulin</em> \ <strong>Postscript</strong> \ Chapter 17. From War Talk to Rights Talk: Exile Politics, Aerial Bombardment and the Construction of the Human Rights Project during the Second World War <em>Jay Winter</em>&<60;\ Editors and Contributors \ Select Bibliography \ Notes \ Index
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