In the Soup
David Trotter: Air Raid Panic, 9 October 2014
The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-41
by Brett Holman.
Ashgate, 290 pp., £70, June 2014,978 1 4094 4733 7 Show More
by Brett Holman.
Ashgate, 290 pp., £70, June 2014,
“... and by German demands for treaty revision. On 10 November 1932, the deputy prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, about to set off for a disarmament conference in Geneva, had told the House of Commons that when war broke out again the only question would be ‘Whose morale is shattered quickest by preliminary bombing?’ ... ”