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On 19 October 1939, Hitler briefed his generals on the German plan of attack. The ruthless employment of the Luftwaffe against the heart of the British will-to-resist,' he said, 'can and will follow at the given moment. In Britain, everyone felt the clock ticking. A last-ditch plan to dig a network of underground shelters in London was considered, but ultimately scrapped over concerns that the populace, paralysed by fear, would never re-emerge. At the last moment, a few psychiatric field hospitals were thrown up outside the city to tend to the first wave of victims. And then it began. On 7 September 1940, 348 German bomber planes crossed the Channel. The fine weather had drawn many Londoners outdoors, so when the sirens sounded at 4:43 p.m. all eyes went to the sky. That September day would go down in history as Black Saturday, and what followed as 'the Blitz'. Over the next nine months, more than 80,000 bombs would be dropped on London alone. Entire neighbourhoods were wiped out. A million buildings in the capital were damaged or destroyed, and more than 40,000 people in the UK lost their lives. So how did the British react? What happened when the country was bombed for months on end? Did people get hysterical? Did they behave like brutes? Let me start with the eyewitness account of a Canadian psychiatrist. In October 1940, Dr John MacCurdy drove through south-east London to visit a poor neighbourhood that had been particularly hard hit. All that remained was a patchwork of craters and crumbling buildings. If there was one place sure to be in the grip of pandemonium, this was it. So what did the doctor find, moments after an air raid alarm? 'Small boys continued to play all over the pavements, shoppers went on haggling, a policeman directed traffic in majestic boredom and the bicyclists defied death and the traffic laws. No one, so far as I could see, even looked into the sky. In fact, if there's one thing that all accounts of the Blitz have in common it's… Image of the cover of NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Humankind A Hopeful History" By Rutger Bregman An absolutely remarkable work Grounding and uplifting at the same time
January 16, 2026 at 3:10 AM