The Sky on Fire : The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (332 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword by Hanson W. Baldwin -- 1. 'A Single German Aeroplane' -- A Vision of Modern Warfare -- 2. The Coming of the 'Wong-Wongs' -- 3. Air War and Baby-Killing -- 4. The England Squadron -- 5. Gotha in the Sea -- London by Day -- 6. A Grand but Deadly Show -- 7· 'Send Over ... One or Two Squadrons' -- 8. 'The Hammer is in Our Hands' -- 9· The Raid Heard Round the World -- 10. The Fortress of London -- 11. Sunday in Southend -- 12. Defeat of the Day Raiders -- 13. 'The Magna Carta of British Air Power' -- ... And by Night -- 14. Trials and Experiments -- 15. Giants to the West -- 16. The First Blitz -- 17. 'We Will Give it All Back to Them' -- 18. 'All that Flies and Creeps' -- 19. Winter Twilight of the Gotha Bombers -- 20. The Nights of the Giants -- 21. Khaki and Blue: An Air Force is Born -- End of a Round -- 22. The Biggest Raid-and the Last -- 23. Retreat to Oblivion -- 24. The First Bomber Command -- A Fearsome Legacy -- 25. Only a Beginning -- 26. The Sky on Fire -- An Afterword by Marshal of the Royal Air force Sir John Slessor, G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C. -- Tables -- British Air Defence in 1918 -- Home Defence Squadrons, L.D.A., November 1918 -- British Air Raid Casualties, 1915-18 -- Summary of the Gotha and Giant Raids on England -- Bibliographies -- Sources -- Index.
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Great Britain.-Royal Air Force. World War, 1914-1918-Aerial operations, German. World War, 1914-1918-Aerial operations, British. London (England)-History-Bombardment, 1917-1918.