The first blitz in 100 objects / Ian Castle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castle, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations, German.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Yorkshire, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Frontline Books, [2019]

Summary:

A visual history of this forgotten WWI bombing campaign: "A fantastic book.Remnants of stained glass windows, grocery shop scales. . .and so much more." -- War History Online The First World War ushered in many new and increasingly deadly weapons and strategies--none more so than Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. German Airship Girders

2. 1-pdr 'Pom-Pom' Gun

3. 20lb Hales Bomb

4. The First Bomb on Britain

5. Graves of Britain's First Air Raid Victims - Great Yarmouth

6. Glass from St Mary's Church - Snettisham

7. Crested China

8. Souvenir Postcard of a Raid on Britain

9. The Southend Standard

10. Souvenirs from the Imperial Bazaar - Ramsgate

11. 16 Alkham Road - London

12. Zeppelin Bomb Markers - Gravesend

13. The Hull Zeppelin Raid Photographs

14. Reginald Warneford, VC, Memorial - London

15. The LZ 37 Memorial - Ghent

16. Zeplo

17. Palmer's Shipbuilding &amp

Iron Company Plaque

18. Air Raid Insurance

19. Zeppelin Raid Memorial - Goole

20. 3-inch 20 cwt Anti-Aircraft Gun - Dover

21. Woodbridge Postcards

22. German Commemorative Medallion

23. 'In Memoriam' Cards

24. Queen Square Bomb Plaque - London

25. The Dolphin Tavern's Clock - London

26. Farringdon Road Plaque - London

27. The Wrotham Park Bone

28. The Gateway of St Bartholomew-the-Great - London

29. Hamerton's Grocery Shop - East Dereham

30. AA Gun Position on One Tree Hill - London

31. Agnes Robins' Grave - Margate

32. Mobile 13-pdr Anti-Aircraft Gun

33. War Memorial - Hertford

34. No. 68 Bus - London

35. Lincoln's Inn Chapel - London

36. Zeppelin Incendiary Bomb (Naval)

37. King's Royal Rifle Corps Memorial - Dover

38. Damaged Brickwork - Walsall

39. Granite Bomb Markers - Loughborough

40. Crown Derby China

41. The Trawler King Stephen

42. The Manchester Regiment Memorial - Cleethorpes

43. The Wakefield Medal

44. Ranken Dart

45. Zeppelin L 15 Relics

46. Carbonit High-Explosive Bomb - Edinburgh

47. The Bomb on Lauriston Place - Edinburgh

48. Bombs on Danby High Moor.

49. A Souvenir of Zeppelin L 20

50. Explosive and Incendiary Bullets

51. 'Super Zeppelin' Gondolas

52. Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c

53. Severndroog Castle - London

54. Spähkorb or Sub-Cloud Car

55. H. Scott Orr's 'Destruction of a Zeppelin'

56. The Cuffley Red Cross Souvenirs

57. The Church of St Mary the Virgin - Essendon

58. Souvenir Matchbox Cover

59. Silver Watch - Little Wigborough

60. Zeppelin Souvenirs - Essex

61. The Windows of St John's Church - Washingborough

62. Silver 'Zeppelin' Cup - Hornchurch

63. A Zeppelin Victim - Holcombe

64. A Child's Sewing Cards - Sheffield

65. Heinrich Mathy's Binoculars

66. Zeppelin Cross Church of St Mary the Virgin and All Saints - Potter's Bar

67. 'A Pledge of Love'

68. Flt Sub-Lt Gerard Fane's Flying Helmet

69. Comic Postcards

70. Stow Maries Aerodrome - Near Maldon

71. Tontine Street - Folkestone

72. P.u.W Bombs

73. Sopwith Pup N5182

74. Plaques to the Memory of PC Alfred Smith

75. Sidney Elkin's Collar

76. Upper North Street School Memorials - London

77. Souvenir Napkin - 13 June 1917

78. Glove from the Crew of L 48 - Theberton

79. St Peter's Church Cemetery - Theberton

80. Church of St Edmund the King &amp

Martyr - City of London

81. 16th Century Chest, Ironmongers' Hall - City of London

82. Iron Cross, 1st Class

83. 2nd Lt Wilfred Salmon's 'Wings'

84. Matchbox Cover

85. The Drill Hall - Chatham

86. Cleopatra's Needle - London

87. Pigeon N.U.R.P./17/F.16331

88. Sound Mirror - Dover

89. The Internal Gangway of Zeppelin L 49

90. Gotha GV 906/16 - Rochford

91. Gotha GV 674/16 - Near Canterbury

92. 10 Stone Buildings - London

93. St Paul's Church - London

94. Gatehouse Clock - Kew Bridge Waterworks

95. The Kerley Family Grave - London

96. The Royal Hospital - London.

97. F.E.2b Tail Boom - Annfield Plain

98. Damaged Milestone - Bold Heath

99. An Unexploded British Anti-Aircraft Shell

100. Grave Markers, German Military Cemetery - Cannock Chase

Endnotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5267-3292-0

1-5267-3290-4

OCLC:

1123216933