Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was ... direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres began with heavy raids on London on 7 September 1940 during what became known as the ...

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.

Mark "Bill" Bailey, who survived the Blitz, takes a sneak peek at a new and free exhibition at the London Archives in Clerkenwell. It details the lives of ordinary Londoners through the bombings.

In Under a Fire-Red Sky, Geraldine McCaughrean’s thrilling wartime tale, four evacuees run away from their new homes – and ...

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Blitz – a new wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Graham and more – follows the lives of Londoners during the blitz of the Second World War. It is truly Saoirse Ronan’s world and ...

“Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us to victory,” recited another poster displayed almost ...