So my book is a thing that now exists. But although it was formally published on 18 June, many online bookstores have waited until today to actually ship it. (I recommend using Booko to find the cheapest prices, or you can get a 10% discount by ordering directly from Ashgate.) To mark this auspicious day, […]
Brett Holman. The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. :D
I’ve just submitted an article for peer review, ‘The airship panic of 1913: the birth of aerial theatre and the British fear of Germany on the eve of the Great War’. I’m not going to say where, since it will likely be rejected and I don’t need to have a public record of my failures!
My book is now finished: the cover has been finalised, the proofs are complete, the index is done, the files have been sent to the printers. Publication is now only a month away. Ashgate has put up some teasers on its website: the table of contents, the introduction, and the index. I found my first
A number of people suggested that the bleedthrough apparent in my book’s cover art could be removed easily enough, and so I went back and asked Ashgate if it could be fixed. And it can and it has been and here is the result. Perfect!
My book, The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941, is getting closer to being real. In June, in just three months, it will be in the bookstores. Soon the indexing will be undertaken. Yesterday I made the final corrections to the text, and shortly I’ll receive the page proofs from
Things are starting to happen with my forthcoming book, The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908–1941, which is being published by Ashgate. The manuscript has just been proofread, the cover design is in the works, I have a marketing questionnaire to fill out. The book is now listed on the
A year has passed since my article on the debate in Britain over whether to bomb German civilians in reprisal for the Blitz was published. Under the Australian Journal of Politics and History‘s self-archiving policy I can now upload my own copy of the final, peer-reviewed text for anyone to read for free. So here
My peer-reviewed article, ‘Dreaming war: airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918’, has now been published in the latest issue of History Australia, which can be found here. This is the abstract: Numerous false sightings of mysterious aeroplanes, thought to be German and hostile, were reported by ordinary people around Australia in the
History Australia, the journal of the Australian Historical Association, has accepted my article ‘Dreaming war: airmindedness and the Australian mystery aeroplane scare of 1918’ for publication in the August 2013 issue. This is the second time my blogging to conference paper to peer-reviewed article workflow has borne fruit. I stumbled across the scare nearly two
