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200 10$aBlitz Britain $eManchester and Salford /$fGraham Phythian
210  1$aStroud, Gloucestershire :$cThe History Press,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (313 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $a""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 a???A Thing of Shocking Beautya???: The Fate of Manchester Cathedral""; ""2 a???Forewarned is Forearmeda???: The Gathering Storm""; ""3 a???The Bomber Will Always Get Througha???: Know the Enemy""; ""4 a???One Mass of Flamesa???: Christmas Blitz (1): Manchester""; ""5 a???Lights and Fires Everywherea???: Christmas Blitz (2): Trafford Park, Salford and Stretford""; ""6 a???Manchester Took It, Tooa???: Aftermath""; ""7 a???Get What You Cana???: Under the Cover of Darkness""
327   $a""8 a???A Dull, Pulsating Roara???: The Night of the Doodlebugs""""9 a???A Finer City Will Arisea???: Phoenix Manchester""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix 1 Manchester Emergency Committeea???s Log of Bombing Incidents 22-24 December 1940""; ""Appendix 2 Stretford Bombing Incidents 22-24 December 1940""; ""Appendix 3 Salford Bombing Incidents September 1940 - June 1941""; ""Appendix 4 Manchester Rest Centres During the Blitz""; ""Appendix 5 Stretford Rest Centres During the Blitz""; ""Appendix 6 Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Maps: Salford Docks Area""; ""Appendix 7 Salford Rest Centres During the Blitz""
327   $a""Appendix 8 Manchester and Salford Bombing Maps""""Appendix 9 Anti-aircraft Placements Around Manchester in the Second World War""; ""Bibliography and Sources""; ""Copyright""
330   $aIn 1940, the Manchester and Salford Blitz saw the city and its surroundings targeted by the German Luftwaffe. The most destructive attack was launched in December 1940; it is remembered today as 'the Christmas Blitz'. Nearly 800 people lost their lives, and thousands more were injured, in two nights of raids ending with a devastating Christmas Eve that saw hundreds of tons of high explosive and thousands of incendiaries fall. The damage was so extensive that Nazi propaganda claimed the city had been burned to the ground. Attacks continued into 1941 and beyond, and landmarks such as the cathedr
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