Liverpool Blitzed: Seventy Years on

by Neil Holmes

The Liverpool of early September 1939 wasa thriving port and bustling city of over800,000 people.WorldWarTwo changedthis forever Between the 27th June 1940 andthe I0th January 1942 Hitler's Luftwaffe raineddown death and destruction on the city,reducing many fine buildings to either burntout shells or piles of rubble. During the firstweek of May 1941 alone the raids killed 1,453people and seriously injured around anotherthousand.The intervening 70 years have seen the cityundergo drastic docks that no longerhave ships berthed there, terraced streetsthat have been cleared to make way formodern housing and grand old buildingsthat have been demolished in the name ofprogress. For many people wartime imagesof Liverpool are almost unrecognisable, suchis the facelift the city has undergone.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2011

About the author

I was born on the Wirral in 1979 and still live there today, but work in Liverpool as a civil servant. I have studied military history for fifteen years and the history of the Merseyside region for six. My interest in local history and photography led me to research Liverpool’s wartime experiences, culminating in the publication of Liverpool Blitzed: 70 Years On in 2011. I have spent the last year in the local archives, collecting wartime images and travelling around the region taking modern photographs for my second book, Merseyside Blitzed, which was published in 2012. I am currently working on several projects that I hope will become future books.