David Needham has written a comprehensive description of air raids in Nottinghamshire during the Second World War (1939-45). He has carefully researched the material and gathered first hand accounts and painstakingly used them to describe how civil defense workers were trained and prepared for air raids. The biggest air raid on Nottingham was in May 1941, which is comprehensively covered along with details of the aftermath. Fortunately, with dangerously low levels of water for fire fighting, there was no raid the following night. The author has included a considerable number of photographs to support his text and illustrate incendiary...Read more
David Needham has written a comprehensive description of air raids in Nottinghamshire during the Second World War (1939-45). He has carefully researched the material and gathered first hand accounts and painstakingly used them to describe how civil defense workers were trained and prepared for air raids. The biggest air raid on Nottingham was in May 1941, which is comprehensively covered along with details of the aftermath. Fortunately, with dangerously low levels of water for fire fighting, there was no raid the following night. The author has included a considerable number of photographs to support his text and illustrate incendiary devices and some of the methods used to fight incendiary fires. There are also many action photographs of fire fighters on duty along with images taken following a night raid to illustrate the extent of the damage caused by fire and bombing. To bring the message home the author has included a selection of recently taken photographs which may well help explain why there are strange looking houses in parts of Nottingham and why there are rows of modern houses amongst Victorian terraces.
- ISBN10 1843064863
- ISBN13 9781843064862
- Publish Date 25 September 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Horizon Press
- Imprint Landmark Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English