Comments on: The Shadow of the Bomber http://airminded.org/2005/08/23/the-shadow-of-the-bomber/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:42:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2005/08/23/the-shadow-of-the-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Brett Holman Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:49:56 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=31#comment-11 Yeah, I noticed that too, and was about to email him about it (maybe he's thinking of uncle Richard). It's a great site otherwise, though. Yeah, I noticed that too, and was about to email him about it (maybe he’s thinking of uncle Richard). It’s a great site otherwise, though.

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2005/08/23/the-shadow-of-the-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Chris Williams Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:30:26 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=31#comment-10 Yes, that's the Sheffield one I was talking about, so far as I can remember it. By the way, that NBCD site says that Haldane was an MP: he wasn't. Yes, that’s the Sheffield one I was talking about, so far as I can remember it. By the way, that NBCD site says that Haldane was an MP: he wasn’t.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2005/08/23/the-shadow-of-the-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Brett Holman Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:00:22 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=31#comment-9 Hi Chris, Thanks! Good call on <em>The Paladins</em> and Buckley's book; and thanks for the pointers on the biographies, I haven't delved into that side of things yet. Not sure what to make of <em>The Aerodrome</em>, it's not a primary source for me as it was published during the war ... I'll have to read it first. I know Edgerton likes it a lot. The CPGB pamphlet sounds interesting! Would it be the one pictured at the <a href="http://www.nbcd.org.uk/arp/library/left-wing.asp" rel="nofollow">NBCD ARP site</a>, on the far right? Hi Chris,

Thanks! Good call on The Paladins and Buckley’s book; and thanks for the pointers on the biographies, I haven’t delved into that side of things yet.

Not sure what to make of The Aerodrome, it’s not a primary source for me as it was published during the war … I’ll have to read it first. I know Edgerton likes it a lot.

The CPGB pamphlet sounds interesting! Would it be the one pictured at the NBCD ARP site, on the far right?

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2005/08/23/the-shadow-of-the-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Chris Williams Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:59:43 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=31#comment-8 Hi Brett. You need to add _The Aerodrome_ by Rex Warner to your fiction list. I think that Wells' _Land Ironclads_ belongs there too. You really need to add _The Paladins_ by John James (not the best history book ever written, but pretty close), _Trenchard_ by Andrew Boyle, and _Sir Frederick Sykes_ by Eric Ash* to your non-fiction list. Neville Shute's autobiography _Slide Rule_ is interesting, too. You might want to add Peter Fearon's work on the British aircraft industry to to it as well, and John Buckley's _Air Power in the Age of Total War_. Primary sources: Ashmore's _Air Defence_ (1929) is good on this. When you get to Blighty, there's an interesting 1938 pamphlet on air raid precautions in Sheffield local studies library which was produced by the Sheffield branch of the CPGB. *Ash claims originality but is in fact re-hashing one of the sub-themes of James' incomparably better book. Good luck, mate! Hi Brett. You need to add _The Aerodrome_ by Rex Warner to your fiction list. I think that Wells’ _Land Ironclads_ belongs there too. You really need to add _The Paladins_ by John James (not the best history book ever written, but pretty close), _Trenchard_ by Andrew Boyle, and _Sir Frederick Sykes_ by Eric Ash* to your non-fiction list. Neville Shute’s autobiography _Slide Rule_ is interesting, too. You might want to add Peter Fearon’s work on the British aircraft industry to to it as well, and John Buckley’s _Air Power in the Age of Total War_.

Primary sources: Ashmore’s _Air Defence_ (1929) is good on this. When you get to Blighty, there’s an interesting 1938 pamphlet on air raid precautions in Sheffield local studies library which was produced by the Sheffield branch of the CPGB.

*Ash claims originality but is in fact re-hashing one of the sub-themes of James’ incomparably better book.

Good luck, mate!

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