After the Blitz -- The Luftwaffe Bombing of Britain, 1941–1943

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Scheduled for 9 December.

https://www.kentuckypress.com/978198...ter-the-blitz/

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After the Blitz: The Luftwaffe Bombing of Britain, 1941–1943
(The University Press of Kentucky - 9 December 2025)
by Stephen Moore
288 pages w/ 5 b&w photos and 25 tables - 6" x 9"
$30 US - paperback
$60 US - hardcover

"From May 1941 to the end of night raids in 1943, Luftwaffe bombers attacked provincial cities across England, Scotland, and Wales. However, these air raids are not considered part of the Blitz—at least, not according to the British Official History. The official historiography maintains that the Blitz on the United Kingdom ended when aircraft were redeployed to support the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, after the final major raid against London that May.

In After the Blitz: The Luftwaffe Bombing of Britain,1941–1943, author Stephen Moore argues that official histories minimize the impact of bombing on cities like Newcastle, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham because they use attacks on London to define the Blitz's chronological boundaries. By excavating British and German archives and cross-referencing government documentation with memoirs and secondary sources, Moore demonstrates that Britain suffered from Luftwaffe assaults well after the official end date of the Blitz and rescues the history of post-Blitz bombings from obscurity.

After the Blitz cements itself in the historical record by confronting the official scholarship that has been foundational to the field and affirms the traumatic experiences of people who lived outside of London during this period."

Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The End of the Blitz and the Continuation of Raids During 1941
2. 'East Coast Blitz': The Autumn Campaign against Coastal Targets
3. The Effect of Baedeker on the Resurgence of the Luftwaffe in 1942
4. After Baedeker: Continuation of Luftwaffe Operations Throughout 1942
5. The Night Raids of 1943
Conclusions
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8

The Author
"Stephen Moore is a twentieth-century conflict historian. He has published articles on the Bethnal Green shelter disaster in War & Society, Fighter Command night air defense policy in Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal, and the pilot supply crisis during the Battle of Britain in the British Journal for Military History.

https://www.kentuckypress.com/978198...ter-the-blitz/

[Chris Goss]

5 photos?

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Peter Elstob massive and impressive book "Hitler's last Offensive", considered to be the "last word" onto the Ardennes Offensive do have absolutely no images and only a couple of maps (4 or 5 if memory does not fail me). However it is deeply written with several first hand memories, impressions, etc. A fantastic old (1971) book...

I do agree with you that, for nowadays standards, only 5 images is a bit less than the average...

Sadly there is no PDF samples, so we can have an idea of the deep of his research and the caliber of his text.

The subject seems interesting and maybe written on a new approach....on my humble opinion...