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Listopia > The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
For books that focus on, feature and are about The Blitz.
People fleeing the Blitz, people caught in the middle of it, people picking up the pieces after it, etc.
The Blitz (shortened from German Blitzkrieg, "lightning war") was the period of strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941, 16 British cities suffered aerial raids with at least 100 long tons of high explosives. Over a period of 267 days, London was attacked 71 times, Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth eight times, Bristol six, Glasgow five, Southampton four, Portsmouth and Hull three and a minimum of one large raid on eight other cities. This was a result of a rapid escalation starting on 24 August 1940, when night bombers aiming for RAF airfields, drifted off course and accidentally destroyed several London homes, killing civilians, combined with the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill's retaliatory bombing of Berlin on the following night.
From 7 September 1940, one year into the war, London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in London. Ports and industrial centres outside London were also attacked. The main Atlantic sea port of Liverpool was bombed, causing nearly 4,000 deaths within the Merseyside area during the war. (Wiki)
People fleeing the Blitz, people caught in the middle of it, people picking up the pieces after it, etc.
The Blitz (shortened from German Blitzkrieg, "lightning war") was the period of strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941, 16 British cities suffered aerial raids with at least 100 long tons of high explosives. Over a period of 267 days, London was attacked 71 times, Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth eight times, Bristol six, Glasgow five, Southampton four, Portsmouth and Hull three and a minimum of one large raid on eight other cities. This was a result of a rapid escalation starting on 24 August 1940, when night bombers aiming for RAF airfields, drifted off course and accidentally destroyed several London homes, killing civilians, combined with the UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill's retaliatory bombing of Berlin on the following night.
From 7 September 1940, one year into the war, London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in London. Ports and industrial centres outside London were also attacked. The main Atlantic sea port of Liverpool was bombed, causing nearly 4,000 deaths within the Merseyside area during the war. (Wiki)
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Since the creator specified that books on this list should be about the World War II Blitz period, I removed a couple of World War I books.
❀⊱Rory⊰❀ wrote: "Since the creator specified that books on this list should be about the World War II Blitz period, I removed a couple of World War I books."Hello! I am the list creator. Next time, just list them here and I'll deal with it. I monitor this list often as I am always adding books to things. If any mistakes occur, I can deal with it. ;-) Or at the least, please list in a comment which books were deleted, so not only I know, but others do and can see in the future and know not to re-vote them. Hopefully the books removed were really WW1 based and no mistakes were made. If so, thanks.
Clare wrote: "Hi Rory! Do you fancy adding my new book The Night Raid to the list?The Night Raid :)"Hello. Your book The Night Raid is already added. I am the list ceator and add books when I find them. It is currently book #131. ;-) And f you look at the book's page, it lists this list below:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
I like the idea of this list (thanks to all who contributed), but I wish there were an easy way to tell the fiction from the non-fiction, as at my age I'm not nearly as interested in "real" history as in speculative or historical fiction.
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