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Alan Simpson

Air Raids on South-West Essex in the Great War

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A quarter of a century before the Blitz of 1940, the inhabitants of south-west Essex were terrorized by an earlier aerial menace. Over the course of four years, German Zeppelins, Gothas and Giants flew above their homes, unleashing hundreds of highly explosive and incendiary bombs on London. During three of these raids, bombs were dropped on Leyton and many others landed elsewhere in south-west Essex. These early air raids are now largely forgotten in local memory, but for the inhabitants of the time the attacks were unprecedented, unexpected and lethal.In the years since the Great War a great deal of literature has been published on London's… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4738-4297-7
  • EAN: 9781473842977
  • Produktnummer: 22579733
  • Verlag: Pen and Sword
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 35'368 KB

Über den Autor


Alan Simpson has lived most of his life near the border between Essex and London. He developed an interest in local history while at school and studied history at university. After working for many years in the Civil Service, he now works at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. A keen photographer and deltiologist, and a member of the Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society and the Ilford Historical Society, this is Alans third book about the history of 'metropolitan Essex.

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