| Churchill
called it his nation’s greatest trial and its finest
hour. Europe had fallen to Hitler and Britain stood alone.
Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German
Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the
“Square Mile,” the heart of the city and the site
of some of its greatest landmarks.
In this gripping
historical narrative, Margaret Gaskin puts the reader into
the middle of the Blitz, its horror and its heroism, by vividly
reconstructing the night that Hitler tried to burn the city
to the ground — the night that one of the war’s
most haunting photographs was taken, showing St. Paul’s
still standing amid burning ruins. Stunningly vivid and compelling,
Blitz uses the voices of those on whom the bombshells
fell — the ordinary and the famous, including Edward
R. Murrow and FDR — to tell the story as it has never
before been told.
Margaret Gaskin studied history at Queen Mary College in London’s
East End. She lives in London.
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