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 ...

"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 ...

Londoners sleep in the city's Underground for protection during German bombing raids, 1940.Hans Wild—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images London’s monumental Metropolitan Railway opened on January 9, ...

On September 15, 1940, CBS News radio correspondent Edward R. Murrow described the bombing of London during World War II’s Battle of Britain. Murrow usually opened his broadcasts with the words ...

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 – this book is the fifth of a ...

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 ...

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 ...