‘Innumerable books will be written about every aspect of the conflict. But it is certain that there will be no more astonishing story than the story which is illustrated in such publications as this; the story of how the humble and the obscure, whose names the world will never hear, and who had never asked anything of life but the opportunity to follow their own occupations and manage their own homes in security, suddenly found themselves in the midst of a besieged fortress.’
J. B. MORTON, War Pictures by British Artists, BLITZ,
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1942, PAGE 8