At home and under fire: air raids and culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz

Introduction: modern war and the militarization of domestic life

Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-1916

Redefining the battle zone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-1918

Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in Interwar Britain

Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come

Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids

Facing the future of air power: air raids abroad and reactions at home

Preparing the public for the next war: air raid precautions on the eve of war

Protecting the innocent: gas masks for babies and the domestication of air raid precautions

Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from September '28 to the Blitz

Representing the new air war: morale, the air raid, and wartime popular culture

Conclusion: Air raids and the domestication of modern war.