Secret Casualties of World War Two: Uncovering the Civilian Deaths from Friendly Fire

by Simon Webb

Book Overview

The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realize, however, that these artfully constructed narratives of heroic resistance to aerial bombardment both conceal appalling massacres of their own citizens. In Britain, thousands of civilians were killed when the army shelled London and other cities in an effort to prevent those living there from fleeing the German bombs. At Pearl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399021230
• ISBN13: 9781399021234
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 192 Pages