Air Raid Blitz Histories
A list of publications covering events in various locations published during, or shortly after, the war by individuals, local authorities or newspapers.
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Hitler Passed This Way - before and after photos showing the bombing damage in London
Hitler Passed This Way
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Brighton & Hove Under Fire - details the damage suffered by these south coast locations
Brighton & Hove Under Fire
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Our Blitz – Red Sky Over Manchester - photographs from the Daily Dispatch and Evening Chronicle of the air raid damage inflicted on Manchester (esp. the attacks of Dec. 22/23, 1940)
Our Blitz – Red Sky Over Manchester
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Bristol Under Blitz (1942) - record of the bombing events in 1940 and 1941 in Bristol by Alderman Underdown, Mayor of Bristol
Bristol Under Blitz
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Great Yarmouth – Front Line Town 1939 – 1945 - details of events in this East Anglian town
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Streatham’s 41 - an account of the 41 German V weapons that struck the London borough of Streatham
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Great Yarmouth - Front Line Town 1939 - 1945
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Streatham’s 41
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Croydon Courageous – The Story of Croydon's Ordeal & Triumph 1939 – 1945 - history from the local newspaper the Croydon Time
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The Bombardment of Bath April 25, 26, 17 1942 - details the so-called "Baedeker Raid", in which Bath was bombed due to its cultural and historical, rather than their strategic or military, value
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Croydon Courageous - The Story of Croydon's Ordeal & Triumph 1939 - 1945
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The Bombardment of Bath April 25, 26, 17 1942
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It Happened Here – The Story of the Civil Defence in Wanstead & Woodford 1939 – 1945 - local history of the CD during WW2 (possibly the best history published post war)
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Hampstead at War – Hampstead Borough Council Report of 1946 - pretty self explanatory
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It Happened Here – The Story of the Civil Defence in Wanstead & Woodford 1939 – 1945
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Hampstead at War – Hampstead Borough Council Report of 1946
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Bethnal Green’s Ordeal (1945) - an area of London that suffered greatly during the war by George F Vale
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Wallasey Warden Service 1938 – 1944 - history of the service in this Merseyside locale
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Bethnal Green’s Ordeal
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Wallasey Warden Service 1938 – 1944
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Death Over Haggerston (1941) - early (and censored) account by H A Wilson
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The War in East Sussex (1945) - collated photographs and history from a local newspaper
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The War in East Sussex
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Assault Upon Norwich - official account of air raids on the city by R. H. Mottra
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Ordeal in Romford (1945) - details of the events in this Essex town by Glyn Richard
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Assault Upon Norwich
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Ordeal in Romford
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Smitten City – The Story of Portsmouth under Blitz - heavily bombed due to the Royal Navy presence in the area
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The War Over Walthamstow 1939 – 1945 - a local authority produced history of events in this London borough
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Smitten City – The Story of Portsmouth under Blitz
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The War Over Walthamstow 1939 – 1945
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Bombers over Merseyside – The Authoritative Record of the Blitz 1940 – 41
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Sheffield Blitz – Story & Pictures (1941) by James S. Abrahams
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Bombers over Merseyside – The Authoritative Record of the Blitz 1940 – 41
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Sheffield Blitz – Story & Pictures
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Trial By Ordeal – Malden Faces Total War (1945) - local council produced history of events in the borough
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Plymouth Blitz – The Story of the Raids (1947) - how the south coast city was targeted during the war.
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Trial By Ordeal – Malden Faces Total War
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Plymouth Blitz - The Story of the Raids
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Kent The County Administration in War 1939 – 1945
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Bristol Bombed (1943) - over 170 images of the aftermath of German raids on the city by F. G. Warne
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Kent The County Administration in War 1939 – 1945
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Bristol Bombed
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Sheffield at War 1939 – 1945 (1947) - another history of the bombing of this city
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When War Came To Leicester - details of the raids on this Midlands town by George Harold Ingles and photos from Leicester Evening Mail
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Sheffield at War - 1939 - 1945
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When War Came To Leicester
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Air Raids on the Hartlepools (1945) - by Charles Cowley
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Coventry Under Fire November 1940 – April 1941 (1942) - details the bombing of the city esp. the serious bombing in November 1940 by Rev G.W. Clitheroe
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Air Raids on the Hartlepools
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Coventry Under Fire
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Leicester Blitz Souvenir (1941) - 50 photographs of bomb damage to the city and surrounding areas
Leicester Blitz Souvenir
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Eastbourne 1939 to 1945 - 62-page booklet about the bombing of the Sussex town during the war.
Eastbourne 1939 to 1945
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Fire Over London (1941) - The Story of the London Fire Service 1940-41
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Hastings & St. Leonards in the Front Line - The Story of the Borough's Bombing Ordeal - published by the local Observer newspaper
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Fire Over London
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Hastings & St. Leonards in the Front Line
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No. 3 (Weston-Super-Mare) Area - detailed history of events in areas around this West Country coastal town |
City of Gloucester Civil Defence (1946) - overview of incidents in Gloucester |
No. 3 (Weston-Super-Mare) Area
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City of Gloucester Civil Defence
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Grim Glory - Pictures of Britain Under Fire (1941) - a collection of shelters and post raid photos from across the UK. Edited by Ernestine Carter, a foreword by Edward R. Murrow and some Lee Miller photographs.
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London Transport Carried On (1947) - written by Charles Graves and published by the London Passenger Transport Board this book covers the impact of bombing on the transport network in London. Contains some remarkable pictures.
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Grim Glory - Pictures of Britain Under Fire
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London Transport Carried On
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Canterbury June 1st, 1942 (Unknown date of publication) - images of the bombing of the town of Canterbury in Kent during the so-called Baedeker Raid. Published by the Kent Messenger newspaper.
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The Warble 1939-1945 Victory Souvenir (1945) - images from Ipswich by the East Anglian Daily Times.
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Canterbury June 1st, 1942
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The Warble 1939-1945 Victory Souvenir
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