The 86,000-square-foot labyrinth was built in the 1940s during the London Blitz. Now, workers are transforming it into a ...
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we ...
The attraction’s centrepiece, however, is a bar; the ‘deepest licensed bar in the United Kingdom’, with capacity for several hundred visitors, who can expect to be served Vesper Martinis in a nod to ...
The total death toll climbed to over 40,000 during the London Blitzkrieg, and thousands of buildings across the city were leveled, reduced to rubble. The strange thing is that the Nazi’s bombing ...
It was one of eight such shelters built by the UK government during World War II in response to Germany’s Blitz bombing campaign that claimed the lives of around 30,000 people in London alone.
No man risked more to alert Americans, and the world, to the human drama of Britain’s existential struggle during the horrific months, in 1940, of the London Blitz. “You burned the city of ...
Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was ... direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres began with heavy raids on London on 7 September 1940 during what became known as the ...
The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.
South Carolina carries out first firing squad execution in US in 15 years South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States ...
By 1942, when the purpose-built tunnels were finished, the Blitz had ceased so they were never used for shelter. "It's real. It's emotional," said Angus Murray, chief executive of The London Tunnels, ...