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- Merseyside War Years Then and Now
- £12.99GBP
With its strategic shipping ports and factories, the towns and cities
dotted along the River Mersey soon became some of Hitler's most heavily
targeted sites during the Second World War. In August 1940 the German
Luftwaffe attacked Birkenhead in what was to be the first of over 300
such bombing raids Merseyside sustained that year. Almost 4,000 people
perished and many more were seriously injured as the streets and
buildings of Liverpool and Wirral were destroyed and their residents
left in turmoil. Featuring 45 vistas of bomb-damaged suburbia and city
centre carnage alongside 45 photographs of the area as it is today,
Merseyside War Years: Then & Now sensitively documents the changes
and developments that have taken place in Merseyside since those dark
days of war, demonstrating both architectural progress and Britain's
resilience and in the face of adversity.