Many other people have contributed in one way or another in helping to get this book finished and providing material, information or advice: in particular Martin Alexander, Monika Baar, Maria Bucur, Nicholas Chapman, Sebastian Cox, Jeremy Crang, Juliet Gardiner, Jim Goodchild, Hein Klemann, Sergei Kudryashov, James Mark, Phillips O’Brien, Anna Reid, Matthias Reiss, Laura Rowe, Nick Terry, Martin Thomas and Richard Toye. I would also like to offer a general thanks to all my students at Exeter who have taken my course on the history of bombing over the last five years and made the teaching so enjoyable. They have often made me think about issues differently, or reassess things I took for granted. I hope they will see some of that intellectual conversation reproduced here. For any remaining errors I have only myself to blame.
To my agent Gill Coleridge and her assistant Cara Jones my grateful thanks for their enthusiastic support. I am indebted as ever to the team at Penguin Press – Simon Winder, Richard Duguid, Penny Vogler – and to my copy-editor, Richard Mason, for all their help in turning the manuscript into its final polished form.
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First published 2013
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The epigraph is from John Betjeman, Collected Poems, copyright © 2006 the Estate of John Betjeman, reproduced by permission of John Murray (Publishers). The quotations from Vera Brittain England’s Hour are reproduced by permission of Mark Bostridge and T. J. Brittain-Catlin, literary executors of the estate of Vera Brittain, 1970.
Front cover: View of the City of London taken from the roof of St. Paul's Cathedral showing the devastation and burning buildings following the Blitz of the 29th December 1940. (Photograph © Mirrorpix / The Bridgeman Art Library)
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