Bath the most devastating Baedeker Blitz: Luftwaffe efficiency or defensive failure
Reference Number
PP/818
Level of Description
Item
Title
Bath the most devastating Baedeker Blitz: Luftwaffe efficiency or defensive failure
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Penny, John: Author
Date
1998
Extent
Pages: 151
Description
'Bath the most devasting Baedeker Blitz: Luftwaffe efficiencey or defensive failure' is a dissertation submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the MA in Local and Regional History at Bath Spa University College in November 1998). An indepth study of the military background to the 'Baedeker Blitz' on Bath using records held by Bundesarchiv/Militararchiv, Freiburg, Germany, Ministry of Defence Air Historical Branch, Great Scotland Yard, London, Imperial War Museum, RAF Museum at Hendon, Public Record Office, Kew (now the National Archives) and Bath Record Office.
Also comprises the following additional material on Bath and the Baedeker Raids/Bombing of bath writtten or collected by John Penny:
1. Bath - Fire of Annihilation: an analysis of German Air Operations over the City during World War Two (Bath Spa University College 1997)
2. Photocopies of German 'invasion' map of Bath (Stadtplan von Bath) issued in August 1940
3. Photocopies of Bomb Plot Maps Bath 1942 for city centre, Twerton south, Twerton west and Lyncombe
5. A list of fatalities in Bath and surrounding parishes 1939/45
5. BBC written archive, Caversham Park, Peppard Road, Reading: summary of world broadcasts - German reports on Bath
6. Photocopy of the pages relating to Bath from an English version of Great Britain Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker published in 1937
7. John Penny's notes on Bath WW2 documents at the Public Record Office (now the National Archives) and the Imperial War Museum (on Floppy Disk and possibly unable to read)
