Abstract

1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-16 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-18 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in interwar Britain 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture 12. Conclusion: air raids and the domestication of modern war.

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