air raid documentation

Is or has there ever been any commercial publications of facts and figures and dates of air raids in particular areas. Id love to find details and info on raids that were local to me and any damage they caused. the area im most intrested in is LIVERPOOL as i live where all the AA batteries were located to try and protect the city, Thank you

 

Steven,
Try the series by Battle of Prints International:
The Blitz Then and Now (3 vols.)
You can find them here. After the Battle
This one was recently printed as part of an ENglish Heritage project;
AA Command: Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War by Colin Dobinson( Methuen) , and contains a gazetteer of every gunsite in Britain.
There are a couple of official histories:
The Defence of the United Kingdom by Basil Collier, which was reprinted by Naval and Military Press/The Imperial War Museum a few years ago. An accompanying volume on Civil Defence was printed in 1955, but I can't remember the author's name. You might be able to find it at: UKBookworld
Your local council archives might have copies of incident books kept by the Air Raid Precautions wardens, or even the local Royal Observer Corps unit. Only book I can think of on this was Attack Warning Red; A History of the Royal Observer Corps to 1975 by Derek Wood.
Failing that, try the National Archives.You'll find a list of London-based researchers who could do the donkey work for you fairly cheaply.

[ 19. June 2005, 06:52 AM: Message edited by: The_Historian ]

 

thanks very much for the info, i have most of these books in my collectiopn but have yet to enquire about local archives, The AA COMMAND book is very good and gave a lot of info on my local gunsites. also the English heritage archive was most helpful, thanks once again

 

My Pleasure Steven.
I meant to add that if you contact your local council archaeologist, he/she should have copies of all the gazetteer volumes of surviving 20th century defences which were compiled for the Defence of Britain Project a few years ago. These might have info on Liverpool raids as an aside.