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Hanson, Neil, - FIRST BLITZ - The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918.

Title: FIRST BLITZ - The Secret German Plan to Raze London to the Ground in 1918.
Description: Doubleday, London, 2008, 1st edn., [xii], 436pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text half tone photo ills. as chapterheads, maps at coloured endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwwrapper, an accouint of the German bombing campaign against London during World War One, at first in Zeppelins until by 1916 improvements of Britain's defensive fighter capacity resulted in too many losses, but by 1917 the Luftwaffe's England Squadron had the Gotha bomber and by 1918 the Elektron incendiary, with which they came close to obliterating London, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww1 air blitz london germany zeppelin gotha bomber elektron incendiary

Price: GBP 15.00 = appr. US$ 21.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40368

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