2018 - Franco Angeli
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The bombing of British cities in the Second World War.
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- This article examines the bombing of British cities during the Second World War by the German Air Force. It focuses on three themes: the imagined effects of bombing and the fears that these aroused during the 1930s; the reality of bombing the urban area and its social and economic consequences; and the reasons why cities did not collapse into crisis under the impact of bombing despite the pre-war fears. The article argues that the bombing was not widespread or prolonged enough to create serious urban dysfunction and that a combination of government action, at national and local level, together with the efforts of the urban civil population to maintain city life were sufficient to sustain the city as an economic entity and a moral community and to provide a foundation for city reconstruction after the war. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5523
KEYWORDS
- City bombing, Second World War, Blitz, Coventry, Reconstruction;
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In this issue
- Britain at war : an introduction
- The bombing of British cities in the Second World War.
- Planning in Britain during and immediately after the Second World War : planners, processes and plans
- Forgetful or purposeful? Memory and the remaking of place after the Blitz
- Reconstruction, Englishness and Coventry Cathedral
- Ruins for remembrance : the debate about the bombed London City churches and its echoes in Italy
- A case study in the City of London : St Alban's church in Wood Street
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