On Sunday 24 November 1940, Germany dispatched 148 bombers to attack Bristol. BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall spoke to ...

Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was applied by the British press to the tempest of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941. This concentrated ...

The air raid on on the night of 14 November 1940 was the single most concentrated ... Phillip Budd, who was in attendance, was born on the night of the blitz. "Well I was told that my father ...

No young woman wanted to stay in every night so she’d escape by going to see Vivien Leigh in 1939’s Gone With The Wind or Carmen Miranda in Down Argentine Way (1940).” Much of the Blitz-era ...

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 bombing raids, Londoners headed into ...

In English, the term “The Blitz” refers to the attacks by the German Luftwaffe on Great Britain in 1940/41. In addition, the German word “Blitz” has found widespread use in English ...

The 86,000-square-foot labyrinth was built in the 1940s during the London Blitz. Now, workers are transforming it into a museum, memorial, art gallery and bar Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent An ...

We open the 1940s songbook for a tribute to the legendary stars who kept us smiling through our darkest days. Spirit Of The Blitz recaptures the tenacious optimism of war-torn Britain on the long ...