The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing ... (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London recall fighting the fires until New Year 1941, in a film by J.B. Priestley.

Capital city: London was the main target of the Blitz. It experienced 57 consecutive days of bombing from 7 September 1940. Docks were targeted, as well as factories, railways and other industrial ...

“Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us to victory,” recited another poster displayed almost everywhere in London during the Blitz. The wartime government ...

lie under Holborn in central London. They were dug by hand starting in late 1940, when German planes were bombing the city almost every day and night in what was known as the Blitz. During the ...