A picture from a comic strip, presumably published during the 1960s. After WW2, with the decline of British power and the loss of the Empire, the Battle of Britain became a national symbol. In Churchill's words, it was “their finest hour”.
Subjects on WW2 Britain.
Available subjects to be prepared at home and to be presented in class. You can choose any of them:
- On the Battle of Britain: Hitler's instructions, the narrative of Dennis Newton, an ace fighter pilot of the RAF, and a photo of a German bomber over London.
- On the Battle of Britain: text by the English ace pilot Peter Townsend and picture of a crashed Messerschmitt.
- On the Battle of Britain: Churchill's famous speech “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” and a photo of Churchill visiting London after a German raid..
- The Blitz : statements by Göring and Keith Park, photos (air raid shelter, children before their bombed house).
- The Blitz: a young boy with the British flag in the remains of his house (photo) and an excerpt from the memories of David Lodge, from his novel Out of the shelter (1970).
- The home front, with a propaganda poster and an excerpt from the memories of David Lodge.
- The home front, with a propaganda poster and a excerpt from Churchill's history of the Second World War.
- The battle of Britain and the Blitz, with a text by Richard Hillary, RAF ace fighter pilot, and a photo of a milkman during the Blitz by Fred Morley.
- The Blitz, with a text by George Orwell and a photo on tea time in a shelter.