Many Not The Few by Richard North

Author:Richard North
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2013-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

It was clear that nerves were raw. There were “many expressions of bitterness” at the apparent impossibility of stopping German raiders from doing what they liked. This issue was “bewildering and frightening people”, and the opinion of anti-aircraft gunfire was “astonishingly small”.31

The newspapers were playing down the effects of the bombing. The Guardian noted that London as a whole had had its first big raid and had come out of it well. It could “hold its head up now with those heroic towns of the South-east which had stood up to repeated battering”. A journalist who had toured the damaged areas in the East End of London claimed he had seen nothing to show that the raids had daunted the spirits of the East End. In other papers, there were laudatory accounts of the sang froid of the nurses at St Thomas’s. A constant theme also was the promise of revenge, although the Daily Mail chose a curious form of words:

We prefer to put it another way: that the British Forces, the RAF especially, will pursue a steadily increasing campaign against Germany for set purposes to victory, and that object will in time become overwhelming.

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