Birds Eye Wartime Leicestershire 1939-1945: Maps and Aerial Photographs: A Synoptic View of Wartime Leicestershire [Paperback]

"...practically every page has a vertical photograph, each superbly reproduced and all the relevant airfields are included."

(Barry Abraham)

"It is a remarkable, never-seen-before dot-by-dot detail of World War Two destruction in Leicestershire..."

...is a fascinating read, not just for those who are sixty years plus, but also for much younger people.

"Birds Eye Wartime Leicestershire 1939-1945" is designed to give a visual representation of all known military activity which occurred in Leicestershire during the second world war. This book contains annotated maps and indexes illustrating the approximate locations of: 1665 High Explosive Bombs & 1000's of Incendiary Bombs, 180 Aircraft Crashes, Ammunition Dumps, Military / U.S. 82nd Airborne Camps, Anti-Aircraft & Searchlight Batteries, Areas Machine-Gunned, Practice Parachute Drop Zones, Starfish Decoy Sites and Active Airfields.

This book contains 60 previously unpublished Luftwaffe, U.S.A.A.F. and R.A.F. aerial reconnaissance photographs taken between 1939-45 revealing decoy sites, anti-aircraft and searchlight batteries, airfields, factories, etc.

A section in the book is also devoted to Leicester's city centre and various towns and villages throughout the county, revealing in great detail the landscape before post war development took place. Photographs of:

HUMBERSTONE LIDO
KENWOOD LIDO
BLACKBIRD ROAD STADIUM
BELGRAVE RAILWAY STATION
TROCADERO CINEMA
P.O.W. CAMPS

Also featured are reproductions of the original Luftwaffe target maps used in the Leicester raid of November 1940! and a selection of original A.R.P. reports covering the bombing of Hinckley and Burbage, Kirby Muxloe, the Vale of Belvoir and other areas in the county.