Hebert Mason's famous photograph of St. Paul's Cathedral being bombed by Germans on December 29-30, 1940.World War II is one of my favorite subjects to study. I don't know why, but this war has always fascinated me above all the others. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to live in London during this time; it was bombed continusouly nearly every night for months, maybe even years. This chapter did make me proud of London, however; it showed an immense amount of pride from the author and gave me pride, too. It's a wonder that London survived these air raids at all; with the number of bombs dropped nightly, you would think that even a large city would eventually be forced to surrender what little was left of it....but once again, the author ruins a beautiful thing. Apparently all that came out of WWII for London was that the city was rebuilt by criminals. I'm not much of an optimist myself, but come on!
The chapter continues to talk about what Londoners did during this time of war, the Prime Ministers of the time, and quoting author after author about this time.
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