"During the war nearly 9,000 German bombs of a total weight of some 280 tons were dropped on British soil in the course of fifty-one airship and fifty-two aeroplane attacks. London was bombarded twelve times by airship and nineteen times by aeroplane. In all, 1,413 persons were killed and 3,408 others were wounded as the result of these raids, London suffering more than half of the casualties - 670 killed and 1,962 injured. The underlying motive of these raids was to unnerve the British public, to make life unbearable by destroying their homes and by crippling their means of supply ; and, by inflicting heavy casualties, to compel them to sacrifice their national honour rather than suffer a continuance of air attacked. In this the Germans failed. -- From the preface (page v)

List of maps : Map of the "Silent raid" on the night of 19th-20th October 1917 ; Map of the first German Airship raid on Great Britain on the night 19th-20th January, 1915 ; Map showing the L.Z.38's advance on London, May, 1915 ; Map of Airship raids on Tyneside, 14th April, 1915, and 15th June, 1915 ; Map of the Great Airship Raid on the n ight 2nd-3rd September, 1916 ; Map of a German night aeroplane raid on London, 31st October - 1st November, 1917.

Part one. The airships. The British Navy strikes while Germany prepares -- The campaign starts -- The first raids on London and Hull -- The summer raids of 1915 -- The London Offensive -- From London to the Midlands -- The strafing of Scotland -- The second raid on Scotland -- The air defence grows -- The Great Airship Offensive of 1916 -- Leefe Robinson's raid -- The fall of the thirties -- The decline of the Zeppelin -- Oversea Zeppelin hunting and the silent raid -- The end -- Part two. The Aeroplanes. Trial efforts -- The great daylight raids -- The moonlight raids -- The giant offensive.