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) :
 

  1. [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”).
  2. The threat of a German invasion. A speech by Churchill on 11 September 1940 and a letter by Maria Blewitt, WAAF.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. On the Battle of Britain: text by the English ace pilot Peter Townsend and picture of a crashed Messerschmitt.
  6. 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..
  7. On the Battle of Britain: Brian Lane, RAF fighter pilot and Churchill.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. The Blitz, with a text by George Orwell and a photo on tea time in a shelter.
  11. [Caution ! Not to be presented in class] The Blitz : statements by Göring and Keith Park, photos (air raid shelter, children before their bombed house).