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Gott Strafe England - The German Air Assault Against Great Britain 1914-1918 Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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Gott Strafe England - The German Air Assault Against Great Britain 1914-1918 Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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Gott Strafe England Volume 2 continues the detailed analysis of the
German Strategic Air Offensive against Great Britain through the
years 1917 and 1918. The use of twin-engined aeroplanes became more
prevalent in the attacks against London, while the Naval Zeppelin
Force, with its new lighter and higher climbing airships was
relegated to the occasional attack against the more lightly
defended Midlands and East Coast targets, with disastrous results;
the weather being the greater enemy. With the failure of the
daylight aeroplane raids in the face of determined opposition,
smaller, multiple formations of aircraft were employed using the
cover of darkness to achieve their goal of reaching the capital,
but the rapid expansion of the British anti-aircraft barrage was a
deterrent to all but the bravest airman. Finally the Giant
multi-engined aeroplanes were brought into play, carrying bombs up
to 300 kg in weight, but even they, without an effective bombsight
and navigation aids, failed to achieve their goals of bringing an
end to the war. Right to the very end of the war the German airship
force was used try to prove their original air strategy was
correct, but with the death of their mentor and leader Peter
Strasser, who, in one final raid, was to join so many of his men,
in a fiery death scored across the skies, they were proved to be
wrong. Gott Strafe England Volume 2 continues with the same high
level of detail as to be found in Volume 1: giving the precise
routes of every German raider, where every bomb fell, the damage
caused and casualties on both sides, whether on the ground or in
the air. Often reading like the tales from of a Boys Own Adventure
Story, the full details of combats, eye witness accounts and the
details of the anti-aircraft gun positions and numbers of shells
fired are recorded. Never before has such a project ever been
attempted that goes into so much detail to record precisely what
happened in the skies over Britain during the Great War. An
essential guide to any historian who is either researching their
local area in the war, with long forgotten incidents of bombs
falling and lives lost being recounted or those who are seeking the
complete account of the war in the air over Britain.
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