The air raids by German Luftwaffe planes on English cities and towns in 1940 and 1941—attacks known collectively and famously as the Blitz—were terrifying, but they failed in their key aim: namely, to ...

A ‘Diary’ of the Most Critical Ten Days of the Battle of Britain. Written by a prolific author – who started back when there were many veterans available for interviews – ...

"I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940” published in a book of poems in 1941 and later the subject of a broadcast alongside poems by Eric Gill and Edith Sitwell." LONDON, OCTOBER 3RD, 1940. A ...

There is only one precedent of a modern democracy besieged under rocket attacks. During the afternoon of September 7, 1940, 348 Nazi bombers appeared over London’s skies. For the next two months, ...

Kent, now a Monroe resident, was a 25-year-old Londoner when German bombers began raining destruction on England's capital in September 1940. She was there with her baby girl while her husband was off ...

The first half of the 1940s were marked by World War II, from watching updates with worry in Times Square to walking through ...

In August 1935 my mother died of breast cancer. We lived in Dagenham at the time. She left my father, Frederick, my sister, Rose and me, Lilian. After she died we moved to Bethnal Green to be nearer ...

The first half of the 1940s were marked by World War II, from watching updates with worry in Times Square to walking through rubble in London, all while trying to press on as though everything was ...

London's Underground System is internationally famous and is the oldest transport system of its kind in the world, opening on January 10, 1863. Not only that, but the tube map is iconic and many ...

"I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940” published in a book of poems in 1941 and later the subject of a broadcast alongside poems by Eric Gill and Edith Sitwell." ...