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1940s, Art, Books, Pictures

Are you thinking what we’re thinking?

Thanks to JDK for forwarding this interesting image. It’s the front cover of Bomber Command: The Air Ministry’s Account of Bomber Command’s Offensive against the Axis, September, 1939-July, 1941 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1941) (written by Hilary Saunders). So it was part of the same series of propaganda pamphlets as the more famous The […]

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

John S. Partington. Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H. G. Wells. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. A very highly regarded book on Wells’ ideas about a world state and how to get one, a subject which I have dipped into insofar as it involves airpower (which is frequently).

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Jan RĂ¼ger. The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. A book I cited in my thesis. I don’t see why the library should have all the fun.

1930s, Air defence, Aircraft, Art, Books, Pictures

War is cute

I’ve previously posted some of Gorden Cullen’s artwork for the Tecton Group’s 1939 book Planned A.R.P.. Here are some more of his cute drawings dealing with an awful subject. In this case, he is illustrating the ‘general agreement among experts’ on the threat posed by the bomber. (a) The range, speed, and carrying capacity of

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Charles Sowerwine. France Since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Second Edition. French history is one of my weak points. If I’d taken one of Chips’ classes — he retired from my former department a few years ago — I might not have needed to buy his book.

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

As I said… I went back for more Shute! Neville Shute. No Highway. London: Vintage Books, 2009 [1948]. Not about the Comet and its metal-fatigue induced accidents, because it was written before the prototype even flew. Neville Shute. Pastoral. London: Vintage Books, 2009 [1944]. A Bomber Command romance.

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