Download or read book A R P Air Raid Precautions written by J. B. Haldane and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this fascinating book was 'intended for the ordinary citizen, the sort of man or woman who is going to be killed if Britain is raided again from the air'. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : The Technique of Mass Murder The History of Air Bombing Keeping Bombers Away The Government's Precautionary Measures Further Government Schemes Protection Against High Explosive Bombs Evacuation An A.R.P. Scheme Giving Complete Protection The Political Aspect of A.R.P Summary Appendices Poisonous Gases and Smokes Gas Masks and Gas Proof Bags For Babies Calculations Regarding Leakage Into and Out of Rooms Gas Proof Boxes Bibliography Recent Developments
Download or read book The Air Raid Girls written by Jenny Holmes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May, 1941. Meet the Air Raid Girls: three young women keen to do their bit during the Yorkshire blitz. Connie's life has taken an unexpected turn since her husband died - she's living at home and working in the family bakery - but night shifts as an ARP Warden give her a firm sense of purpose. Her younger sister Lizzie is eager to play her part too, perhaps as an ambulance driver. Her fiance refuses to support her decision... but does he really know what's best for her? Twenty-year-old Pamela has led a sheltered life, but when her family's home is destroyed in a raid she must learn to stand on her own two feet - helped by new friends. As bombs fall and fires rage, the young women face the destruction of everything they've ever known. Can their fighting spirit prevail? And what of their families and the men they love? A thrilling and heartwarming new story of friendship, love and duty in wartime by the author of The Spitfire Girls, for fans of Elaine Everest and Rosie Hendry. **Don't miss the next two instalments in the series. The Air Raid Girls at Christmas and The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides are available now!** --------------------------------------------- Readers LOVE the Air Raid Girls series: 'There wasn't anything I didn't like about this book' 5 star review 'In all the women at war series of book I have read so far, I think this is the best' 5 star review 'I couldn't put this book down' 5 star review 'Loved the whole story. Hated it coming to an end' 5 star review 'Just the kind of book I like' 5 star review
Download or read book A R P written by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of air raid precautions in Great Britain.
Download or read book William and A R P written by Richmal Crompton and published by Macmillan Pub Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Raids written by Great Britain. Ministry of Home Security and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Put that Light Out written by Mike Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil Defence was a grouping of civilian emergency services that included the National Fire Service, the police and a whole range of support services that were part of Air Raid Precautions (more commonly referred to as the ARP). Collectively they played a vital role in providing a controlled response to the effects of German bombing raids on British cities. The ARP was managed by report and control staff, incident officers and messenger services. Casualties were dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health staff via casualty clearing zones and depots. The ARP services that were actually on the front line down among the exploding bombs and collapsing buildings included the wardens, rescue services, first aid and stretcher parties, gas identification and decontamination services, roof spotters, fire watchers and fire guards.
Download or read book Bibliography of Air Raid Precautions and Civil Defense written by United States. Work Projects Administration (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Defence from the First World War to the Cold War written by Roger J. C. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during the First World War, with naval bombardments and aerial bombing of towns and cities by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers. These raids demonstrated that no one was immune from attack and that by developing civil defence measures, casualties could be reduced and lives saved. The range of civil defence buildings used in the Second World War was immense, most were built 'for the duration', often utilitarian both in design and materials, but none the less, historically and technologically significant.
Download or read book Half the battle written by Robert Mackay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since. While acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviour existed—panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering—it argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failing of the few who behaved badly. The book shows that although before the war, the official prognosis was pessimistic, measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of indicative factors concludes that moral fluctuated but was in the main good, right to the end of the war. In examining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the ‘invisible chain’ of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial.
Download or read book Air Raid Precautions Handbook No 8 the Duties of Air Raid Wardens written by Great Britain. Air Raid Precautions Department and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blitz Companion written by Mark Clapson and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved.
Download or read book Civil Defence written by Terence Henry O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bomb Resisting Shelters written by Great Britain. Air Raid Precautions Department and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bomb Reconnaissance written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Civilians in the Front Line written by Helen Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By drawing on a range of sources, including secret government documents, newspapers, national and local records, feature films, as well as interviews with those who worked during air raids, this book provides an analysis of private meanings and public media representations of civilians 'in the front line'. It will be enjoyed by historians of the Second World War and those seeking to understand better ways in which civilians have experienced war in the twentieth century."--Jacket.
Download or read book Summits written by David Reynolds and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts six summits which had a significant political impact during the twentieth century, including the Yalta summit in 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and the Geneva summit in 1985 with Gorbachev and Reagan.
Download or read book Air Raid Precautions Training Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
