The Blackout in Britain and Germany, 1939-1945

• Main Author: Wiggam, Marc (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Social history.; Great Britain-History.; Europe, Central-History.; Military history.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; History of Military.

This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial bombing framed its development....