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History > 20th century > UK > WW2
Bus laying inside huge bomb crater in a London street
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks during the Battle
of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=73f492f6445593a2
Wreckage of bus leaning into huge crater in front of bombed
out buildings,
a result of German aerial blitz attacks during the Battle of
Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
Winston Churchill (L)
standing in ruins of House of Commons
debating room after German blitz air raid.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: May 1941
Life Images
Standing up gloriously out of the flames and
smoke of surrounding buildings,
St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during the
great fire raid of
Sunday December 29th. 1940.
306-NT-3173V.
Pictures of World War II
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-85.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos
Londoners sleeping underground in subway
for protection during German bombing raids.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=6f5b56b6dd847dd0
Lady Malcolm
Douglas-Hamilton (born Natalie Latham)
1909-2013
(...) one of the 20th
century’s most inspired relief efforts.
Nearly two years before the
United States entered World War II,
Mrs. Latham started Bundles
for Britain,
an organization that
initially consisted of a few New York women
knitting socks and caps for
British sailors.
It would grow to embrace 1.5
million volunteers
in 1,900 branches in every
state in the union
and begin shipping to
Britain
not only hundreds of thousands of knitted items
but also ambulances, X-ray
machines and children’s cots
— all labeled “From your
American friends.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/lady-malcolm-douglas-hamilton-dies-at-103-aided-britain-in-war.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/lady-malcolm-douglas-hamilton-dies-at-103-aided-britain-in-war.html
The Second World War:
six years that changed
Britain for ever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/23/second-world-war-mccrum
Britain after the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/second-world-war-britain-churchill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/churchill-europe-second-world-war
WWII
casualties
Civilian and Military Deaths in the Second
World War
National Death Tolls for the Second World War
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2stats.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2854730
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/navy-casualties/
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/army-casualties/
VE Day / Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html
The Guardian
facsimile p. 13
9.5.2005
The Daily Mirror
8 May, 1945
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/frames.asp?
http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/mainmenu.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/newsid_3580000/3580163.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/ve-day-celebrations-second-world-war
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_May_8.php
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945_2.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/veday/0,,1473337,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/0,14058,1085469,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/veday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1476330,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/queenmother/article/0,2763,181089,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22106,00.html
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
frames.asp?http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/
Capitulation on Montgomery's
front May 8, 1945
German forces in North-west
Germany, Holland, and Denmark
surrender to the 21st Army Group
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1224327,00.html
Paul Joseph Goebbels
October 29, 1897 - May 1, 1945
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_3rd_1945.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/goebbels-speaks.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/eichmann_03.shtml
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb6.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoebbels.htm
Bombing
of Dresden,
led by Royal Air Force
and followed by the United States Army Air
Force February 13-15, 1945
Arthur 'Bomber' Harris
1892-1984
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4257253.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_3549000/3549905.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/harris_arthur_bomber.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exhibition-marks-blitz-and-dresden-bombings-2071949.html
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whatson/128.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/19/iraq.arts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/allied-bombing-germany-dresden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/germany.secondworldwar
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1411838,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1340160,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1142632,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1160568,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1977920,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1414577,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2719939.stm
V2 / V1 rockets
The first V2s hit Paris,
Antwerp
and Chiswick, in west
London, in early September 1944.
Just under 3,000 civilians
were killed by V2s in
southern England (and more than 6,000 by V1s)
before the last V2 hit
Orpington, in London, on 27 March 1945.
Rescue workers helping pull victim from
ruins of a building hit by a V2 rocket during WWII.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: July 1944
Life Images
American soldier examining a V2 rocket under
construction
in an underground assembly plant.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 29, 1945
Life Images
Buildings showing extensive damage from
German V1 flying bomb attacks.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: July 1944
Photographer: Ralph Morse
Life Images
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1944/sep/08/mainsection.fromthearchive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/10/space-exploration-secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/19/secondworldwar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/63/a4901663.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2713240.shtml
Hitler's secret
weapons 1945
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1808269,00.html
Holland
Battle of Arnhem Operation Market
Garden 17-25/26 September 1944
US Airborne
Divisions take objectives in Holland
to open a corridor for the advancing
British Army.
British 1st
Airborne 10 Division lands at Arnhem but meets strong resistance.
The Allies fail
to gain a bridgehead across the lower River Rhine.
Airborne troops
retreat from Arnhem 26 September 1944
http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/4/dday/pdfs/DDayAftermath.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_3523000/3523972.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_arnhem_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_arnhem.shtml
http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/4/dday/pdfs/DDayAftermath.pdf
Bombing of
Hamburg 1943
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2034998,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,2025938,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/hamburg-bombing-raid-anglo-american
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/germany.secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/22/worlddispatch.germany
D-Day Operation Overlord
6 June 1944
Timeline, stories,
interactive guide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/dday_audio.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/dday_audio.shtml
http://www.atlas-historique.net/1914-1945/cartes/Overlord.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-final-battle-remembering-ddays-veterans-841378.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128358,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/0,14058,1085469,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1232546,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1183628,00.html
http://www.war-experience.org/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/dday/index.htm
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-unity.html
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/dday/
Dambusters raid 1943
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,957618,00.html
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=48
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/17/newsid_3623000/3623223.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3036193.stm
British Bombing Strategy in World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/area_bombing_01.shtml
Second World War code machines
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7982870/
Second-World-War-code-machines-displayed-at-Bletchley-Park.html
Dancing Through the War
How the Royal Ballet danced
on as the bombs rained down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/feb/15/dance
The Arctic convoys
the Second World War mission
to supply the Russians for their battle on the Eastern Front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/11/leaders.secondworldwar
The Beveridge "Plan for Social Security"
1942
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/15/ten-of-the-best-political-documents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1656100,00.html
Egypt
Second Battle of El Alamein /
العلمين
23 October-4 November 1942
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
1887-1976
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_el_alamein_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/montgomery_bernard.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1057394.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/poet-keith-douglas-el-alamein-ww2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/erwin-rommel-papers-el-alamein-ww2
Burma Campaign
1941-1945
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/burma_campaign_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_burma_campaign.shtml
Japan declares war on United
States and Britain December 8, 1941
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127505,00.html
Britain declares
war
on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941,
following Finland's alliance with Germany
and the
signing of
the Tri-partite Pact
[
on September 27,
1940,
Germany, Italy,
and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact,
which became
known as the Axis alliance ]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138501.shtml
WW2
United Kingdom 1941
During gas invasion test during WWII,
all civilians and wardens wear gas masks (respirators).
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e25cfaaf2a26bd0b
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127462,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127470,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127512,00.html
Pact with
America:
Churchill's
speech after the Atlantic conference
24 August 1941
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance
Rudolf Hess
(1894-1987), Hitler's deputy,
escapes to Britain
7 May 1941
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/17/newsid_2496000/2496643.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/mar/16/historybooks.features
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4408283.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1326958.stm
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127470,00.html
Rationing
during the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2010/mar/04/imperial-war-museum-rationing-food
http://food.iwm.org.uk/?page_id=70
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/rationing-second-world-war1
Destruction of
Coventry / 'Coventration'
14 November 1940
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
walks . . .
through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral . . .
1942.
Photograph. Prints and Photographs
Division
(106)
LC-USZ62-16191 Digital ID# cph 3a18421
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/images/wc0106-3a18421r.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-hour.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/slaughter-by-moonlight-the-coventry-blitz-2130231.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/slaughter-by-moonlight-the-coventry-blitz-2130231.html?action=Gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1646990,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/history/coventry_blitz/
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whatson/128.aspx
Kent
Skirmish between a downed
German bomber crew
and a group of
British soldiers September 27 1940
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/7956015/
Kent-battle-between-German-bomber-crew-and-British-soldiers-marked-after-70-years.html
A German U-boat
sinks the City of Benares 17 September
1940
Eighty-one
child evacuees die
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/15/benares-sunk-war-81-children-dead
Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill's speech August 20, 1940
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so
few
World War II poster
"Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Lowe & Brydon Printers, Ltd".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/world/europe/henry-lafont-french-pilot-in-battle-of-britain-dies-at-91.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/battle-of-britain/7851021/
Battle-of-Britain-survivors-It-was-shoot-or-be-shot.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7882425/Battle-of-Britain-veterans-stories.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/battle-of-britain/7881879/
Battle-of-Britain-our-finest-hour.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1940/aug/21/secondworldwar.germany
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_of_britain_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/battle_of_britain/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/newsid_3521000/3521611.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c55221/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4257084.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/battle-of-britain
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,128255,00.html
Coast of Algeria
Mers-el-Kébir 3-6 July 1940
British warships destroy the
French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria,
to prevent Germany seizing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml?day=03&month=07
Players:
Force H, British Admiral Somerville
and Cunningham
and French Admirals Darlan and
Gensoul.
Outcome:
Over 1,000 lives lost,
the French fleet immobilised,
Britain's determination to succeed
in the Mediterranean asserted.
Britain didn't waste any time taking
action
after the French Vichy government
signed a treaty with the Germans on 25 June 1940.
The French had a powerful fleet
which was a threat to British naval
supremacy in the Mediterranean.
Only eight days after the treaty was
signed, on 3 July,
the British seized all French ships
in British ports.
Then, under the command of Admiral
Somerville,
Force H was dispatched to deal with
the French in North Africa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144973.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144973.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml?day=03&month=07
The Battle of Britain
The Blitz
1940-1941
Evacuation Operation Pied Piper
September 1939
The Home Front
Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz, aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz, aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
The Home Front in Photographs
Sutton Publishing, £19.99
The Guardian p. 10
30.10.2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-blitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/sep/24/london-tube-station-blitz-gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/sep/07/british-pathe-archive-blitz
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/world/europe/17freeborn.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/personal-memories-from-battle-of-britain-veterans-2079951.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/10/alexander-chancellor-surviving-the-blitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/sep/08/the-blitz-in-colour-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/sep/07/british-pathe-archive-blitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-francis-beckett
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-liverpool-lloyd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-london-caley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-manchester-roberts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-london-fox
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-coventry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-london-crowther
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-london-james
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-london-warschauer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/sep/06/blitz-london-coventry-anniversary-second-world-war-bombing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/30/unnamed-woman-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/08/family-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/battle-of-britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpBneBRDwI&feature=channel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/blitz-second-world-war
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/7986187/
Anniversary-of-the-Blitz-I-thought-I-cannot-be-alive.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/7986047/
Anniversary-images-bring-the-Blitz-up-to-date.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7980357/
Rare-colour-footage-of-Winston-Churchill-and-King.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7980357/
Rare-colour-footage-of-Winston-Churchill-and-King.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exhibition-marks-blitz-and-dresden-bombings-2071949.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/29/blitz-london-crime-flourish-blackout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/31/second-world-war-blitz-survivor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/
britainatwarreadersmemories/4512474/Britain-at-War-evacuees-1939.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/blitz_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1162/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a2296497.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/20/a4027420.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2286740.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8229175.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7921.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7925.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7922.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7939.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_3500000/3500865.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2171148,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1887666,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/sep/17/secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1787239,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1785166,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1770013,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1305124,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1298985,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,128255,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127361,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127366,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127406,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127412,00.html
London Blitz
7 September 1940
The first day of the German bombardment of
London
that lasted 76 consecutive nights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/06/blitz-night-fire-new-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/06/blitz-night-fire-new-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/sep/06/blitz-second-world-war-map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-francis-beckett
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/germany_bombs_london#p0091xz2
Formation of the Special Operations Executive
(SOE) July 1940
Wartime agency known informally as
“Churchill’s secret army,”
which recruited more than 14,000 agents to conduct
espionage and sabotage behind enemy
lines
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/europe/22nearne.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/c-d/cross.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_01.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/europe/22nearne.html
We shall fight on the beaches
Winston Churchill's speech
was delivered to
House of Commons on June 4 1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspeeches3
France
Dunkerque / Dunkirk Operation Dynamo
Evacuation of around
350,000 British, French
and Belgian troops from Dunkirk 26
May - 4 June 1940
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/world/europe/17freeborn.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7771885/
Dunkirk-evacuation-Operation-Dynamo-in-pictures.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7771919/
Dunkirk-evacuation-anniversary-second-world-war-veterans-reenact-Operation-Dynamo.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/operation-dynamo-dunkirk-little-ships
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/may/27/operation-dynamo-70th-anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/may/27/british-pathe-dunkirk-evacuation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff2_dunkirk.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/jb-priestley-dunkirk-second-world-war
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127406,00.html
Franco-German
Armistice 22 June 1940
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/frgearm.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005429
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Général Charles de Gaulle
Appel du 18 juin 1940
Speeches delivered by Charles de Gaulle
and broadcast by the BBC on June 18, 19 and 22
1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatspeeches/degaulle/0,,2060110,00.html
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/dossier/18juin/temoignages/appel.htm
http://degaulle.ina.fr/Html/PrincipaleAccueil.php
The Fall of France
May-June 1940
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/fall_france_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/45/a2598645.shtml
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005429
Winston Churchill
1874-1965
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
resigns
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
forms a government
May 10, 1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1772298,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/10/newsid_3497000/3497115.stm
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/page135.asp
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWappeasement.htm
WW2
1939-1945
The Holocaust, The Blitz, The
Evacuation, Dig for Victory campaign,
King George V, Chamberlain, Munich,
Churchill, Picture Post, ligne
Maginot, UK wartime
torture camp,
war
posters, Japan, The Western Prince,
Home Guard
Huge area of debris in London
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks
during the Battle of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e026a8118435f285
INF 13/281 (10)
WWII poster:
Firebomb Fritz campaign: Britain Shall Not Burn
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/holocaust_overview_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_ww_two.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/england/ear20_wwtwo.shtml
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/5983711/Second-World-War-posters.html
http://www.war-experience.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/war_adverts_gallery.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/blitz_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/churchill_audio.shtml
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpicturepost.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MONgeorgeVI.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdig.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/flower_shows/hampton_court_2005/hcgrowyourown_index.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1640957,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1640942,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1127783,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/chamberlain_arthur_neville.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_munich.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1561556,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127505,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128341,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/fromthearchive/0,15744,1398350,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1670277,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1770013,00.html
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G1/cs3/default.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/historical/1940homeguard.cfm
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/
parliamentary_archives/archives___d_day.cfm
Viscount Halifax
The Foreign Secretary speaks after two months of war
recorded circa November 1939
Seen
by many as one of the architects of appeasement
prior to the declaration of
hostilities,
Viscount Halifax here speaks to the nation
on
the purposes of the war
and the likelihood of victory for the Allies.
During his lengthy, considered speech,
he
notes that the British 'right to grumble'
is a
mark of freedom compared with the situation in Nazi Germany,
where
complaining can lead to a concentration camp.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7933.shtml
Portrait of Viscount Lord Halifax,
British Secy. of State for Foreign
Affairs.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1939
Photographer: Margaret
Bourke-White
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7312b106579bfe71
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7933.shtml
HM Queen Elizabeth Calls on Women 11
November 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7930.shtml
Britain and France declare war on Germany
September 3, 1939
http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.24027
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/08/99/world_war_11/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_3493000/3493279.stm
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128338,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,,128338,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1296790,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,6051,102802,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1034829,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1034842,00.html
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot31/snapshot31.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7970.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7957.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7909.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7918.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7917.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7916.shtml
The SS Athenia,
en
route from Glasgow to Montreal,
became the first
victim of the Battle of the Atlantic
when she was
torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat 3
September 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7924.shtml
Conscientious
objectors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/british-conscientious-objectors-second-world-war
Final steps to the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/second-world-war-prelude
Germany invades Poland
September 1, 1939
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3506000/3506335.stm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005300
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/chamberlain.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7913.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7914.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7940.shtml
Approach of war / Munich
Agreement /
Appeasement
1938 1939
The
Anglo-German agreement
is
signed by Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich September 30, 1938
Prime minister Neville Chamberlain
returns to Britain
from Germany
announcing that he has secured 'peace for our time'
September 30 1938
Neville Chamberlain
1938
Life Images
More Life photos
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/3eea9f6a26109163.html
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (front row, second
right)
walks past a Nazi honour guard on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler
on September 28, 1938
Picture:
Hugo Jaeger [ Jaeger was one of Hitler's photographers ]
Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler
The Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5452458/
Unseen-photographs-reveal-the-private-life-of-Adolf-Hitler.html?image=1
added 6 June 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/chamberlain-munich-appeasement-second-world-war
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128337,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1316341,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1438796,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3115000/3115476.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_munich.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/201.shtml?question=201
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3115000/3115476.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/roadwar/munich_rev2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3871
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3870
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3869
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7910.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7907.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7903.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7904.shtml
Countdown to World
War Two Monday 28 August 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/countdown_390828_mon_01.shtml
Alan Turing
1912-1954
Alan Turing was
born on 23 June, 1912, in London.
His father was in
the Indian Civil Service
and Turing's
parents lived in India until his father's retirement in 1926.
Turing and his
brother stayed with friends and relatives in England.
Turing studied
mathematics at Cambridge University,
and subsequently
taught there,
working in the
burgeoning world of quantum mechanics.
It was at
Cambridge that he developed the proof
which states that
automatic computation
cannot solve all
mathematical problems.
This concept, also
known as the Turing machine,
is considered the
basis for the modern theory of computation.
In 1936,
Turing
went to Princeton University in America,
returning to
England in 1938.
He began to work
secretly part-time
for the British
cryptanalytic department,
the Government
Code and Cypher School.
On the outbreak of
war he took up
full-time work at
its headquarters, Bletchley Park.
Here he played a
vital role in deciphering
the messages
encrypted by the German Enigma machine,
which provided
vital intelligence for the Allies.
He took the lead
in a team that designed a machine
known as a bombe
that successfully decoded German messages.
He became a
well-known and rather eccentric figure at Bletchley.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/alan_turing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alan-turing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/27/pass-notes-alan-turing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2011/mar/01/pilot-ace-computer-alan-turing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/25/turing-papers-auction-bid-bletchley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-16061279
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2011/dec/19/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/pm-apology-to-alan-turing
Anschluss
Annexation of Austria
into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime
March 12, 1938
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005447
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=anschluss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/201.shtml?question=201
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWanschluss.htm
Jewish refugees on wartime life in England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/09/jewish-refugees-england-kindertransport-holocaust
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor visit Nazi
Germany October 1937
They meet Hitler,
dine with his deputy, Rudolf
Hess,
and even visit a concentration camp
The Duke
[ formerly King Edward VIII of the
British Empire, Emperor of India -
Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick
David; later The Duke of Windsor; 1894-1972
]
and Duchess of Windsor
[ Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born
Bessie Wallis Warfield,
later Spencer, then Simpson; 1896-1986 ]
meet Adolf Hitler
in 1937
Caption from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Windsors.jpg
Photo from The Daily Mail
IAN KERSHAW
Last updated at 1:18 AM on 07th June 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024798/
The-day-lost-Second-World-War--fictional-account-happened.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2701965.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/661966.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jan/16/past.monarchy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jan/25/freedomofinformation.monarchy
Spyclists: how Hitler Youth's cycling tours
caused panic in prewar Britain
Nazis' bid to forge ties with Lord
Baden-Powell and boy scouts
rang government alarm bells
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/hitler-youth-prewar-cyclists-boy-scouts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/hitler-youth-prewar-cyclists-boy-scouts
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/440.htm
Germany begins
rearming
and invades the Rhineland up to the French border
1936
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=536
Anglo-German Naval Agreement June 18,
1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement
The second world war: a timeline
Significant events
before, during and resulting from the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-timeline
The Aerial Reconnaissance
Archive (Tara)
http://aerial.rcahms.gov.uk/worldwide/?PHPSESSID=44e1gbtdrk9joia61ndr2cu3t6
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/air-photographs-collection.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/23/secondworldwar-secret-photographs-online
Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Flag of Germany
1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Germany_1933.svg
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=13
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/nazifica.htm
Germany
Adolf Hitler comes to power
on a programme to reverse the Versailles
Treaty
1933
He withdraws from the disarmament conference
and leaves the League of Nations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
British Fascism / fascism in the UK 1930s
Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)
Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley (née Freeman-Mitford)
1910-2003
British Union of Fascists
BUF
Flag of the British Union of Fascists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Union_of_Fascists_flag.ant.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
added 12 September 2009
British Union Of Fascists Meeting
Sir Oswald Mosley (C)
attending a meeting of the British Union of Facists.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
Oswald Mosley
standing and speaking with a hand raised to make a point.
Location: Ireland
Date taken: 1948
Photographer: Nat Farbman
Life Images
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Pfascists.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/12/deborah-duchess-of-devonshire-chatsworth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/uk-fascism-oswald-mosley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/apr/23/oswald-moseley-1934-archive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/aug/14/britishidentity.biography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/aug/14/guardianobituaries.thefarright
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,1759160,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1466558,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1867679,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/nov/14/artsandhumanities.past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/dec/27/highereducation.britishidentity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/connect/oswald_mosely.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1934/jun/08/thefarright.uk
.jpg)
Rags make uniforms, metal makes tanks, paper makes bullets.
Save waste for war weapons
1939-46
Unknown
This file is from the collections of The National Archives (United Kingdom),
catalogued under document record INF3/208
Wikimedia commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INF3-208_Salvage_Save_waste_for_war_weapons_%28scarecrow_with_scrap%29.jpg
War art in The National Archives (United Kingdom)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:War_art_in_The_National_Archives_%28United_Kingdom%29
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British Pathé
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/british-path
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/oct/02/british-pathe-archive
Germany: National Socialism and World
War II
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Germany:_National_Socialism_and_World_War_II
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Germany:_Primary_Documents
A lost heritage: Nazi pictures reveal
full devastation wreaked by allied bombers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/10/secondworldwar.germany
http://www.fotomarburg.de/
United Kingdom > Second World War >
Images > Posters
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/default.htm
Second World War posters
Seventy years after the radio announcement
that informed the nation that
Britain was at war,
Imperial War Museum London is mounting Outbreak 1939,
a new special exhibition, which will explore
the build-up to and preparations
for war, from August 20.
Terry Charman, senior Imperial War Museum Historian,
describes some of the
iconic posters from 1939.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/5983711/Second-World-War-posters.html
enemy propaganda
National Archives publish wartime propaganda in online gallery
13 June 2012
Hundreds of images of war art including posters
and a portrait of the future queen are released online
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:War_art_in_The_National_Archives_%28United_Kingdom%29
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/13/national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery
Ministry of Food Posters
A new exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum (Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)
pays tribute to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness
in the face of wartime
– and peacetime – food rationing.
Here is some of the eye-catching British Government propaganda
used on the
'Kitchen Front' during that time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html
The following posters were all
used during the Second World War
to encourage austerity and stoicism on Britain's home front.
They form part of an exhibition at the Museum of Brands in London
entitled Make
Do and Mend
(www.museumofbrands.com ;
020
79080880; 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).
The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html
Britain at War: Readers' Memories
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/britainatwarreadersmemories/
The Guardian > Second World War
Second world war > Holocaust
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/09/second-world-war
Second world war > Stalingrad
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/08/second-world-war
Second World War > Liberation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/10/second-world-war
Second World War > Aftermath
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/11/second-world-war
BBC Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7970.shtml
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