The Next War in the Air: Civilian Fears of Strategic Bombardment in Britain, 1908-1941 Introduction The knock-out blow; Imagining the next war in the air; Historiography of the knock-out blow; The structure of this thesis I. Threats 1. Origins of the knock-out blow theory, 1893-1931 The doom of the great city, 1893-1916; Will civilisation crash? […]
I watched Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb the other night for the umpteenth time, and I found myself wondering what the ending means. Vera Lynn singing her Second World War hit ‘We’ll meet again’ over a montage of hydrogen bomb explosions (see above). I think the key
View Larger Map It’s Australia Day today, so here’s a map of the land down under, appropriately enough upside down. But the map itself is on a hillside in a land up over — near Compton Chamberlayne in Wiltshire to be precise. It was carved from the chalk downs in 1916 or 1917 by Australian
Last year, one of my posts was chosen for On Line Opinion/Clup Troppo‘s list of the best Australian blog posts of 2007. Well, the 2008 list is being compiled and another of my posts has again been so honoured! It’s a better pick than last year’s, I feel, though it’s not that well written (it
Hard on the heels of The Edge of the American West, Ross Mahoney at Thoughts on Military History is post-blogging the (aerial) Battle of the Mareth Line. The first post is here.
A question about the phantom airship scares which has bothered me for a while is, how accurate are the press reports of people seeing something strange in the sky? That is, did people actually see something strange in the sky, or were the press reports made up or otherwise distorted? There is some evidence from
View Larger Map Via Northwest History, Londonist has started plotting London’s V2 strikes in Google Maps. Where available, the pop-up has the date, casualties, photos and links. It’s incomplete, but updates are promised. See also the Flickr set of LCC bomb damage maps on which it is based, and a tool to find the five
Source: Review of Reviews for Australasia, May 1913, 248 (link; presumably originally from a British publication).
Over at The Edge of the American West, David Silbey is post-blogging the Boxer Uprising. The first post in the series is here.
This is something I’ve been wondering about for ages. In The Impact of Air Power on the British People and their Government, Alfred Gollin notes, but does not explain, a recurring theme: the idea that after a damaging air raid, angry mobs would string up government ministers (or other servants of the public) from lamp-posts
