Gott Strafe England Volume 3: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

The aerial attacks against Great Britain by airships and aircraft in the Great War were a new development in the history of British warfare.Previously, it had been the British armies that had crossed the seas to do the fighting in foreign lands, but now, for the first time, the enemy was spreading death and destruction on the homeland at will.Initially, there was no obvious and practical means of countering this threat, so what were the reasons for this development and how was the problem solved?Volume 3 of Gott Strafe England will look into operations on both sides to show that with every new development, there came a further development to counter it.The theory that the pace of human ingenuity is greatest during wartime is proven in this book, as a variety of newly-developed weapons - some truly impractical - will be evaluated.Primary evidence from combatants on each side are used to detail the tactical and strategic concepts developed, with previously unpublished accounts of the com