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Autore: | Baldoli Claudia |
Titolo: | Forgotten blitzes [[electronic resource] ] : France and Italy under Allied air attack, 1940-1945 / / Claudia Baldoli and Andrew Knapp |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 940.544 |
Soggetto topico: | World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations |
World War, 1939-1945 - France | |
World War, 1939-1945 - Italy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | KnappAndrew |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | France 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. Until now, studies of bombing in World War 2 have focused largely on the British and German experiences; few cover France or Italy. Forgotten Blitzes aims to remedy this. It explains the reasons for the Allied offensives, and uses political, social and cultural approaches to expl |
Titolo autorizzato: | Forgotten blitzes |
ISBN: | 1-280-57737-1 |
9786613607096 | |
1-4411-4751-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452082103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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