“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...
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How Did Nazi Germany Storm Europe?

Germany’s Blitzkrieg campaign of 1939–1940 reshaped warfare with speed and shock. Combining tanks, mechanized infantry, ...
Five years later, with BBC Bangor still in its infancy, life in Bryn Meirion changed overnight as more than 400 staff arrived ...
100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...
The beauty of data visualizations is that they can describe something incomprehensible through data alone — even if that something is a tragedy. During the London Blitz, from October 7, 1940 to June 6 ...
A British museum has begun the process of lifting the only Nazi bomber to survive the World War II Blitz on London out of its shallow grave -- under 60 feet of water and shifting sands under the ...
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The Blitz (1940-41)

On the 7th September, 1940 Germany started bombing civilian targets in an attempt to get Britain to surrender into submission. German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas. This ...
Volunteers are needed to help build a 20m (65.6ft) cardboard structure to mark the 85th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz in World War Two. Thousands of pieces will make up the temporary landmark, ...
Each Christmas, Manchester remembers the anniversary of the bloodiest 48 hours in the city's history - the December 1940 blitz. More than 800 civilians were killed in two nights of intense bombing ...
RETURN HOME FOLLOWING EVACUATION AND THE MANCHESTER CHRISTMAS 1940 BLITZ - CHAPTER ONE When I finished School in Catforth in July of 1940, I returned home to Manchester to live with my Mother in the ...