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	Encyclopedia: London Blitz
		The Blitz, a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, was the sustained and intensive bombing of Britain, particularly London, from September 7, 1940 through to May 1941 by the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
		The Blitz was partially in revenge for a bombing raid the RAF carried out on Berlin, which was itself ordered because a German bomber had accidentally bombed on London.
		The first air raids on London were mainly aimed at the docklands in the East End of London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/London-Blitz (714 words)

	The Blitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Blitz, a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, meaning "Lightning War", was the sustained and intensive bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during 1940–1941.
		Although the Blitz took its name from the German Blitzkrieg, it was not an example of "lightning war" but was an early example of strategic bombing.
		The Baedeker Blitz was a series of raids conducted in mid-1942 as reprisals for the RAF bombing of the German city of Lübeck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Blitz (1777 words)

	The Blitz
		During the Blitz some two million houses (60 per cent of these in London) were destroyed and 60,000 civilians were killed and 87,000 were seriously injured.
		London still stood this morning, which was the greatest surprise to me as I cycled home in the light of early dawn after the most frightening night I have ever spent.
		London with its sixty consecutive nights of bombardment received the greatest tonnage of bombs, as well as daylight raids, but London is very big and as the world knows London could, and did, take it.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWblitz.htm (6951 words)

	NYU in London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		London authorities had to accept the use of the Underground as a human necessity, and the conditions in it were properly improved and organized.
		The other issue in the Queen Mother's statement is that she refers to Londoners of the time as "taking the Blitz as it came." Her words here illustrate a passive role for Londoners of the time, a direct contradiction to the active role conveyed during the Blitz and directly following the war.
		In view of their sacrifice and the spirit of the survivors, it is surprising that, in a nation which accords proper remembrance to the glorious dead of the armed services, no suitable national memorial exists to the 60,000 civilians-men, women, and children-whose lives were taken in war.
	www.nyu.edu /global/london/ac_essay_remwwii.htm (3824 words)

	The London Blitz, 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was the beginning of the Blitz - a period of intense bombing of London and other cities that continued until the following May. For the next consecutive 57 days, London was bombed either during the day or night.
		Londoners and the world were introduced to a new weapon of terror and destruction in the arsenal of twentieth century warfare.
		The Blitz ended on May 11, 1941 when Hitler called off the raids in order to move his bombers east in preparation for Germany's invasion of Russia.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /blitz.htm (1128 words)

	ipedia.com: The Blitz Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blitz, a contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, was the sustained and intensive bombing of Britain, particularly London, from September 7, 1940 through to May 1941 by the German Luftwaffe in W...
		The Blitz, a contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, was the sustained and intensive bombing of Britain, particularly London, from September 7, 1940 through to May 1941 by the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
		From July to September the Luftwaffe were pursuing a strategy of directly challenging the RAF in an attempt to gain 'air superiority' as a prelude to a seaborne and land invasion (see Operation Sealion).
	www.ipedia.com /the_blitz.html (568 words)

	The Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was the beginning of the London Blitz, and the only mass daylight raid of a campaign of terror that was characterized by the undaunted spirit of the civilian population.
		By dawn London had nine major conflagrations: huge spreading areas of flame, nineteen fires that would normally have called for thirty pumps or more, forty ten-pump fires, and nearly a thousand lesser fires, any one of which would have made the front pages in peace time.
		There were great fire raids on the City of London in December, and more raids in January 1941, but the force of the London Blitz was for the time being spent.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/ww2/ww2-10.htm (901 words)

	Saint Paul's Cathedral on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		London, masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren and one of the finest church designs of the English baroque.
		Plans for further repairs were next prepared by Wren, but the great fire of London (1666) almost destroyed the church, and in 1668 he was granted authority to demolish the badly damaged structure and to build an entirely new one.
		Rugby union: The Brian Viner Interview: Paul's pursuit of England return driven by the zeal of a convert; `Union and league are the same in that you still run forwards and pass backwards, but in between there are...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/StP1aulsC1.asp (730 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - The London Blitz
		From September 1940 to July 1941, London suffered severe damage from German air attacks.
		Known as the London Blitz, this period of World War II resulted in many British casualties.
		Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer; United Kingdom; London (England)
	encarta.msn.com /media_461525424_761574117_-1_1/The_London_Blitz.html (61 words)

	The Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Blitz, a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, meaning "Lightning War", was the sustained and intensive bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during 1940-1941.
		In late August 1940, before the date normally associated with the start of the Blitz, the Luftwaffe attacked industrial targets in Birmingham (on 25-26 August) and Liverpool (28-31 August and 4-6 September).
		The Blitz was effectively a draw for both sides.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-Blitz.htm (1534 words)

	Air Raid Precautions - The Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the 29th December, 1940 came the infamous attack on the City of London, when the Thames was at low ebb so that there was a great shortage of water.
		The London Blitz finally ended with an extremely heavy raid on May 10, 1941.
		The final toll of casualties was 60 595 killed, (29 890 in London), and 86 182 admitted to hospital (50 507 in London).
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /meltingpot/oxford/330/arp/arp4.html (510 words)

	The Blitz on London
		Perhaps one of the worst single incidents during the blitz happened in September 1940 when several hundred people already made homeless because of the bombing were gathered at Hallsville Road school to await transport away from the area to safety and other accommodation.
		The City of London's water main was also damaged as was the major Fleet sewer.
		Bombing raids on London began in earnest again in June of 1944 when the Germans resumed their bombing raids.
	www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk /OnlineMuseum/MuseumDocs/Theblitz3.html (839 words)

	London During the Blitz
		At a London railway station, arriving troops pass by children who are being evacuated to the countryside.
		The first mass air raid on London, September 7, 1940, showing the scene in London's dock area as Tower Bridge stands out against a background of smoke and fires.
		The London Necropolis Railway Station, a privately owned station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/london-blitz.htm (225 words)

	The Blitz of London
		Many of them, we find, lived through the Blitz of London, 1940-1941, and went on to fight in romantic places - Malaya, Katmandu, El Alamein - all the distant outposts of what was then the world's leading superpower...and its dominant empire.
		The first bombs, dropped on the City of London, on the 25th of August, 1940, were probably intended for the aircraft factories in the south of the city.
		London turned off its lights to make it harder for the attackers and tried a number of techniques to bring down the bombers; none worked very well.
	www.dailyreckoning.com /Issues/2005/DR070805.html (2807 words)

	The Blitz
		The Blitz, consisting of air-raids over London and other British cities by the German Luftwaffe lasted from September 1940 until May 1941.
		At first the raids on the Greater London region had been small and scattered.
		London was bombed every night during September - an average of 160 bombers attacked nightly.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3778/85111 (467 words)

	Amazon.com: Blitz: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A cop killer dubbed "The Blitz" is wreaking havoc with a hammer, and as the tale rockets forward, the characters find themselves engaged in unlikely alliances: homophobe Brant with openly gay Nash; suddenly supercompetent Roberts with screw-up McDonald; and the fl Falls with "Metal," a racist skinhead.
		The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a fl female investigator in the notorious unit.
		Blitz is the sequel to Bruen's The White Trilogy, a series of novels that introduced us to the cops in the South East London squad.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312327269?v=glance (1838 words)

	Free-CliffNotes.com - The London Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		By the end of the 1950’s most of the war damage that happened during The Blitz in London was repaired.
		After the war London’s landscape was very much changed during the reconstruction, it changed the London skyline, they also added high-rise offices and also adding apartment buildings.
		This bombing changed the lives of many people, The Blitz was a very dramatic time for London sometimes it may seem that it all happened for the better or even for the worse, but everything happens for a reason.
	www.free-cliffnotes.com /data/dd/hte124.shtml (1083 words)

	London Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Miguel Cura, who isn't a bard but one hell of an artist, and who kindly allowed his postcard to be used in the course of this story.
		Nene Adams, who brought Morgan and Vanessa's ancestor Fyvie to London (via her "Gaslight" series) and was the architect of that unusual looking railway car we saw back in part 10 (also from the "Gaslight" series).
		On a semi-related note, one of the frequent "comments" (to put it mildly) about this particular story has been how extremely difficult it has been to tell the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys.' This was entirely by design.
	www.djordanredhawk.net /london/blitz12.htm (1110 words)

	Frontline London
		It is a platform to remember London's Regiments and soldiers in the Great War of 1914-1918 and the impact that the Zepplin and Gotha bomber raids had on the Capital when the war came to London for the first time.
		I am passionate about London generally but especially about its experiences in the first half of the 20th Century.
		London tours covering the early Zepplin and Gotha raids from 1915;
	www.frontlinelondon.com (243 words)

	WWII: the London blitz of 1940
		An account of the London Blitz of 1940 that was designed to break Britain's spirit.
		This began on September 7th, when a massive 330 tons of bombs were dropped on London.
		Despite the chaos that was being rained down on their city, Londoner’s were determined to carry on life as usual.
	ks.essortment.com /hitlerchurchill_rnmd.htm (1218 words)

	AtariAge - Atari 2600 Manuals (HTML) - London Blitz (Avalon Hill)
		LONDON BLITZ IS AVALON HILL'S TRADEMARK NAME FOR ITS UXB VIDEO GAME Atari and Atari 2600 Video Computer System are trademarks of Atari, Inc. Sears and Sears Video Arcade are trademarks of Sears Roebuck and Co,
		in LONDON BLITZ you are assigned to the Royal Engineers and are tasked to keep your sector of London free of bombs.
		After a game is completed you may start a new game by pressing the fire button once (the letters 'AH' will appear on the screen] and then pressing EITHER joystick fire button to start a new game.
	www.atariage.com /manual_html_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=275 (3336 words)

	The Battle of Britain, 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the summer of 1940, twenty-one-year-old Pilot Officer John Beard was a member of a squadron of Hurricanes based near London.
		The afternoon sun illuminates a cloudless blue sky as Beard and his fellow pilots lift their planes off the grass airstrip and climb to meet the enemy.
		The sky was clearing, but ahead toward London I saw a small, tight formation of bombers completely encircled by a ring of Messerschmitts.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /airbattle.htm (1392 words)

	London Bombings links at JEE 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The London Bombings 7 July 2005 The blood was hardly dry when Tony Blair went on TV at the G8 summit in Scotland to blame "Muslim extremists".
		Discover the London Underground with one woman's daily experiences of travelling on the London Underground subway system or the Tube as it is known to the locals.
		The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground...
	www.jee6.com /digital/London+Bombings (1860 words)

	London Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The dog came of a long and noble line of her breed, one long associated with noble houses since her ancestor had been moved from Scotland to London in the late 1880s by a distant cousin to the Queen and her secretary.
		No doubt she would have found it hilarious that even as she contemplated wasting money on a blatantly over-priced disposable Kodak from street vendor, a curly-haired youngster across the street was snapping pictures off of her every ten feet or so with a state-of-the-art Nokoia.
		Founded amid the ruins of postwar London in 1946, the club was initially little more than a watering hole (in the most ironic sense of the phrase, the basement constantly flooding with foul water and gods knew what else from sewer overflows) for officers and senior enlisted in the Royal Army.
	www.djordanredhawk.net /london/blitz7.htm (16378 words)

	Kathleen's story : Bombed out in the London Blitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I was very shocked of course, and worried that when my husband got back from working day and night putting out fires he would go home and assume the worst.
		One of my mum's neighbours had a telephone and I tried to find out where he was but around the East End of London it was a proper mess and nobody knew anything.
		After a few months the house was patched up by a local firm (the government paid for that) so I could live in it.
	timewitnesses.org /english/blitz.html (594 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| Crime blitz on London's transport
		A week-long blitz on criminals using London's buses, trains and the Tube begins on Monday.
		The Metropolitan Police's transport crime unit made 3,400 arrests across London between 10 June 2002 and 31 October 2003.
		It follows safety campaigns in London to reduce the number of sex attacks involving illegal minicabs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/3252134.stm (204 words)

	jewish israel news london blitz
		Describing his thoughts on the night of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, he wrote: "I thought about the people of London [during the Blitz] enduring relentless bombing and continuing to lead their lives.
		Yet it had somehow never occurred to me before, that in the summer of 1940 the Londoners enduring the horrors of the Blitz had no surety of ultimate victory to comfort them; they must often have been gripped by the same despair that has so often gripped Israelis over the past three years.
		Yet there is also a third element to Churchill's recipe for success, no less important than cultivating international support and demanding more resolute action from our government: Israelis must never forget that even when the picture looks flest, courage, endurance and resolution have the power to bring about victory.
	www.betar.co.uk /articles/betar1064961721.php (822 words)

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