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 (except № 1 and № 11) :
- [Caution ! Not to be presented in class] Their finest hour. A cartoon and the battle of France and Dunkirk (“Nazi trap closes”) and Churchill's speech (“Their finest hour”).
- The threat of a German invasion. A speech by Churchill on 11 September 1940 and a letter by Maria Blewitt, WAAF.
- The fear of impending invasion. An excerpt from Lord Alanbrooke's war diaries (8 September 1940) and a picture showing a soldier on the watch on a beach in southern England (8 October 1940).
- 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..
- On the Battle of Britain: Brian Lane, RAF fighter pilot and Churchill.
- 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 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.
- [Caution ! Not to be presented in class] The Blitz : statements by Göring and Keith Park, photos (air raid shelter, children before their bombed house).