Archive footage captures the staggering destructiveness of the German bombing raids on the capital,Londoners resilience and the propaganda made from it [br]The patriotic defiance of cockney London during the Blitz is fragment of the national folklore many Britons, including me, and grew up with. Not everyone believes it was quite as stoutly uncomplaining as the Pathe News story above or the fabric below,with its modern John Humphrys voiceover, would have you believe.
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Source: theguardian.com