Firefighters Surrounded by Bombed Out Buildings, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. 'Any night, any time, summer 1940. Fire and flame, death and morning-after in London - or is it Coventry, Bristol, Portsmouth? Liverpool, Belfast, Birmingham? Plymouth or Glasgow?...Yesterday was the old order of things. Today is different, just as tomorrow will be different, because it has to be'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.

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