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Zeppelin Inferno - The Forgotten Blitz 1916 (Hardcover)
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Zeppelin Inferno - The Forgotten Blitz 1916 (Hardcover)
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At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year
of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain
continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that
period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come and gone at
will, their most testing opposition provided by the British weather
as the country's embryonic defences struggled to come to terms with
this first ever assault from the air. Britain's civilians were now
standing on the frontline the Home Front like the soldiers who had
marched off to war. But early in 1916 responsibility for Britain's
aerial defence passed from the Admiralty to the War Office and, as
German air attacks intensified, new ideas and plans made dramatic
improvements to Britain's aerial defence capability. While this new
system could give early warning of approaching raiders, there was a
lack of effective weaponry with which to engage them when they
arrived. Behind the scenes, however, three individuals, each
working independently, were striving for a solution. The results of
their work were spectacular; it lifted the mood of the nation and
dramatically changed the way this campaign was fought over Britain.
The German air campaign against Britain in the First World War was
the first sustained strategic aerial bombing campaign in history.
Despite this, it has become forgotten against the enormity of the
Blitz of the Second World War, although for those caught up in the
tragedy of these raids, the impact was every bit as devastating. In
Zeppelin Inferno Ian Castle tells the full story of the 1916 raids
in unprecedented detail in what is the second book in a trilogy
that will reveal the complete story of Britain's Forgotten Blitz'.
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