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020 $a9781441131096 (hardback)
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020 $a9781441185815 (pbk.)
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100 1 $aBaldoli, Claudia.
245 10 $aForgotten blitzes :$bFrance and Italy under Allied air attack, 1940-1945 /$cClaudia Baldoli and Andrew Knapp.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bContinuum International Pub.,$cc2012.
300 $axiv, 296 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [266]-283) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose and politics: the Allies and the bombing of France and Italy -- 3. Preparing for cataclysm, 1922-1940 -- 4. States and bombing, 1940-1945 -- 5. The propaganda war -- 6. Mobilization and its limits: evacuees, air-raid wardens, looters -- 7. Societies under the bombs -- 8. Resistance, bombing, liberation -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: The death toll.
520 $aFrance and Italy account for fully one third of all Allied bombs dropped on Europe between 1940 and 1945. Italy received some 370,000 tons of bombs, nearly five times the total dropped on Britain by the Luftwaffe; France, over 570,000, nearly eight times the British figure. In each country, over 55,000 civilians died.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, British.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zFrance.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zItaly.
700 1 $aKnapp, Andrew.
852 00 $bglx$hD785$i.B35 2012