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The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
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The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
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The attack on London between 1939 and 1945 is one of the most
significant events in the city's modern history, the impact of
which can still be seen in its urban and social landscapes. As a
key record of the attack, the London County Council Bomb Damage
Maps represent destruction on a huge scale, recording buildings and
streets reduced to smoke and rubble. The full set of maps is made
up of 110 hand-coloured 1:2500 Ordnance Survey base sheets
originally published in 1916 but updated by the LCC to 1940.
Because they use the 1916 map, they give us a glimpse of a 'lost
London', before post-war redevelopment schemes began to shape the
modern city. The colouring applied to the maps records a scale of
damage to London's built environment during the war - the most
detailed and complete survey of destruction caused by the aerial
bombardment. A clear and fascinating introduction by expert
Laurence Ward sets the maps in the full historical context of the
events that gave rise to them, supported by archival photographs
and tables of often grim statistics.
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