I Was There - The True Story Of The Blitz

Описание: On August 23rd 1940 the Luftwaffe launched the biggest bombing attack on Great Britain since The Day of the Eagle, striking at British aircraft factories and vital oil storage tanks, as well as the already badly damaged airfields. One flight of bombers, flying off course and confused by a low ceiling of heavy cloud, dropped its bombs and headed for home.

On the evening of August 25th British bombers struck at Berlin, dropping their bombs on the very heart of Hitler’s most prized city. Incensed, Hitler ordered that London be “razed to the ground” and that her people be beaten and bombed into submission, gone was his wish that London be spared the wrath that had befallen Warsaw; if her centuries of history and culture were to be destroyed, then so be it.

Shortly before 4 o’clock on September 7th three hundred German bombers, with an escort of six hundred fighters, arrived in two huge waves, their target, the London docks. The bombers dropped their incendiaries on some of the poorest and most overcrowded streets of London, their slum buildings and poorly built tenement houses more vulnerable than most to the pounding blast of bombs and the ensuing fires. The Blitz had begun…

But the British people refused to be cowered.

The Blitz is the real story of the East End Blitz, the role of the Bomb Disposal, and the real story of the evacuees, told and frighteningly re-lived by people who really were there.