the wailing of sirens the incessant alerts they re even worse than the bombing. sleeping has become impossible. when he took office churchill had promised land toil sweat and tears how else to describe the fate of these bombed out people. state officials watched out for signs that morale was crumbling how would the british people react the public mood could be decisive in this war. but the british public proved surprisingly resilient. when madness and chaos were expected there was solidarity. where demobilization was feared there was an incredible
a back seat london was bombed nearly every day. had high hopes for this new strategy the constant lethal threat from above was intended to break the morale of the british people and destroy the country s economy and capacity to do. event itself once the social order had collapsed germany could launch an invasion. a londoner wrote dear brother there is not one building standing but a heap of earth brick. we took out eleven bodies but apparently there are others underneath.
meet the german leg and the lake is. in reality british aviation was quite incapable of standing up to germany. but churchill s rhetoric did its job the british people held on and dreamed of vengeance some day. but. i the prime minister s approval ratings soared throughout the blitz. ultimately hitler had to face facts the bombardment he believed would be swift and decisive was totally ineffective indeed counterproductive.
combative spirit. people adjusted to the bombing. as many as two hundred thousand people spend their nights in the underground despite appalling hygienic conditions. others commuted daily in order to spend their nights outside their cities. news reports trying to make people forget the blood chant they were careful not to film corpses. of the forty three thousand deaths under the reign of german bombs we have only a handful of images. if the british were able to resist it was because their prime minister had promised them that revenge would be on its way to
ineffectiveness of bombarding civilians and cities it was in britain that the strategy of aerial bombing would resurface. it was the work of an oxford physicist named frederick lindemann. this scientist was little known to the general public he was nevertheless a primary advisor to churchill who gave him the friendly nickname of profit. as the very first bombs were falling on london lindemann and his research team set about to scientifically demonstrate that aerial bombing could ensure military victory. to this end he analyzed the vast amount of data collected from the ruins of the blitz. in much nine hundred forty two he communicated his conclusions in a one page memo to the investigation seems to show that having one s home