The aerial attacks against Great Britain by airships and aircraft in the Great War were a new development in the history of British warfare with the population believing that the enemy was spreading death and destruction on the homeland at will.
In this, the second in a series of articles taken from Nigel Parker’s book Gott Strafe England –The German Air Assault Against Great Britain 1914–1918. Volume 3, we continue to look at some of the ideas for countering the threat from the Zeppelin menace.