From the Burma Road to the Arctic convoys, the killing fields of Kursk and the London Blitz, their voices are heard.

ECONOMIST: The second world war

The representatives of the House of Windsor, bravely touring the East End of London during the Blitz, still showed with hats and handbags and graciously extended hands that they were a class apart.

ECONOMIST: Princess Juliana of the Netherlands

Although the controversy about long-haul air travel has recently put DVT in the headlines, the condition was first described in people sitting on deckchairs in air raid shelters during the Blitz in London.

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Fire, plague, the Blitz London has got through them all.

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Finally the Germans admitted defeat by changing tactics and began the Blitz, the strategic bombing of London and southern England.

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We have a long, deep folk memory not only of the Blitz which, of course, was the most colossal disaster in London--over 40, 000 died in that--but also the provisional IRA bombing campaign in the '70s and into the '80s.

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