On calendar month seven,1940, an intensive or sudden aerial attack by the air force in London, the sky bombinate with battler planes. The initial bombs targeted were industrial areas, however throughout the Blitz, homes, shops, churches, offices, warehouses, streets, and buses would be crushed. As author argues “Over the course of the war about sixty thousand British civilians were killed in the attack on their island, and tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed. About half of the total losses in buildings and lives were in the London area, where more than eight thousand tons of bombs fell, and only a small percentage of buildings survived unscathed” (Solnit 98). During the war around sixty thousand British regular folks were murdered in the assault on their island, and a huge number of structures were wrecked. …show more content…
Then Government decide to do something with civilian, they came up with new idea that people did take to tunnels, despite the discouragement, and did so communally. The London public began buying tickets to ride the Underground system but went down there only to shelter overnight. Thousands more turn the tube stations into vast dormitories every night because their houses had been bombed out, people adjusted to horrific circumstances. There are lot of eye witness of that blitz one of them was “Tom Harrison, who was there at the time directing the Mass-Observation surveys of wartime behaviour, writes in his history Living Through the Blitz” (Solnit). She shares her experience of 55 nights of being