"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 ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A view of London in 1940, with damage from German bombing raids.

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, ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Londoners sleep in the city's Underground for protection during German ...

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 ...

Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. This is a timeline of the almost ...

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 ...

Kent also noted that the destruction visited upon New York City on Sept. 11 was almost a daily occurrence in London during the blitz and afterward. Incensed with three British bombings of Berlin, the ...

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