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dc.contributor.author | Holman, Brett | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-02T11:29:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58(3), p. 394-407 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-8497 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-9522 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14956 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In Britain, popular memory of the Blitz celebrates civilian resistance to the German bombing of London and other cities, emphasising positive values such as stoicism, humour and mutual aid. But the memory of such passive and defensive traits obscures the degree to which British civilian morale in 1940 depended on the belief that if Britain had to "take it", then Germany was taking it as hard or harder. Contrary to the received historical account, opinion polls, Home Intelligence reports and newspaper letter columns show that a majority of the British supported the reprisal bombing of German civilians by Bomber Command. The wartime reprisals debate was the logical legacy of prewar assumptions about the overwhelming power of bombing; but it has been forgotten because it contradicts the myth of the Blitz. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Australian Journal of Politics and History | en |
dc.title | "Bomb Back, and Bomb Hard": Debating Reprisals during the Blitz | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01643.x | en |
dc.subject.keywords | British History | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Brett | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 210305 British History | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 950504 Understanding Europes Past | en |
local.profile.school | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | en |
local.profile.email | bholman2@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | C1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20140319-14023 | en |
local.publisher.place | Australia | en |
local.format.startpage | 394 | en |
local.format.endpage | 407 | en |
local.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
local.identifier.volume | 58 | en |
local.identifier.issue | 3 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Debating Reprisals during the Blitz | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Holman | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:bholman2 | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:15171 | en |
local.identifier.handle | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14956 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | "Bomb Back, and Bomb Hard" | en |
local.output.categorydescription | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | en |
local.search.author | Holman, Brett | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2012 | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 430304 British history | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 130704 Understanding Europe’s past | en |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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