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Everything that happened twenty-two years later in the Battle of Britain is foreshadowed in this story. Fighting was raging on the other side of the Channel, but in London, in the warmth of a drowsy late-September afternoon, the war seemed a long way away. The roads were strangely quiet and deserted, for petrol restrictions had reduced motor traffic almost to zero. London seemed breathless, in the tense expectancy of disaster. First Blitz is told in two parts, each detailing the events of a single week: The first part tells the story of the first London Blitz -- six raids by German bombers in eight nights in 1917. Part two focuses on the events of August 1918 and the countdown to the incendiary raids that would have destroyed much of London and Paris had they not been called off at the very last minute.
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Neil Hanson is that rare beast - a popular historian who never talks down to his readers. Clearly and engagingly written, his book puts more academic historians to shame by discovering a big subject, investigating it thoroughly and drawing bold but far-reaching conclusions from it -- Sunday Telegraph
The 1940s bombing raids over London have taken such a powerful grip upon our imagination that the existence of an earlier Blitz, in World War I, will come to many readers as a complete surprise. Yet as Neil Hanson...demonstrates in this gripping and well-researched book, it was in may ways more terrifying -- Daily Mail
This is a compelling story compellingly told...Gripping -- Navy News
Using first-hand witnesses plus government war records, Hanson draws a powerful picture of the impact of these first air raids -- Time Out
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The story of the first London Blitz, never before told.
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First Blitz : The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918
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