Main entry:

Clapson, Mark.

Title & Author:

The Blitz and its legacy : wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction / edited by Mark Clapson, University of Westminster, UK, Peter Larkham, Birmingham City University, UK.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2013.

Description:

xiv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Blitz, its experiences, its consequences / Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham -- La ville éventrée : or, how bombing turned the city inside out / Lindsey Dodd -- Holiday camps, castles and stately homes : the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II / Sue Wheatcroft -- A Service Forged in the Flames : The Blitz, Wartime Fire-fighting and the National Fire Service / Shane Ewen -- Between destruction and reconstruction : London's Debris Clearance and Repair Organisation, 1939-1945 / Robin Woolven -- The people's peace : the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning / Susanne Cowan -- Reconstruction constraints : political and economic realities / Catherine Flinn -- Destruction and dispersal : the Blitz and the "break up" of working-class London / Mark Clapson -- Tradition and modernity : architecture in Japan after Hiroshima / Neil Jackson -- Reconstruction civic authority in postwar Germany / Jeff Diefendorf -- Bold planning, mixed experiences : the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham / David Adams, Peter J. Larkham -- Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth, 1941-1961 : devising and defending a modernization agenda / Stephen Essex, Mark Brayshay -- Destruction, revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine, 1939-1960 / Hugh Clout -- Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan : the case of Sendai / Junichi Hasagawa.

Summary:

Drawing together leading scholars and researchers from across a range of academic disciplines, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.

ISBN:

9781409436980 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1409436985 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, German.
Bombing, Aerial Social aspects Great Britain History 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945 Destruction and pillage.
Bombing, Aerial Social aspects History 20th century.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Bombardement aérien Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Opérations aériennes.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Destruction et pillage.
Bombardement aérien Aspect social Histoire 20e siècle.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951.
Destruction and pillage.
Military operations, Aerial.
Military operations, Aerial German.
Weltkrieg
Luftangriff
Wiederaufbau
Luftkrieg
London (England) History Bombardment, 1940-1941.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire 1940-1941 (Bombardement)
England London.
Great Britain.
Deutschland
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Larkham, P. J. (Peter J.), 1960-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290556
Call No.: BIB 233606
Status: Available