The British Blitz

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This paper examines the impact that the air war over Britain, that began in the late summer of 1940, had on the British national identity. The paper presents a history of the Blitz and shows how it was countered by British aircraft and how it actually boosted the morale of the English population.

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"Remarkably, Philip Ziegler states that a network of psychiatric clinics developed to deal with the neuroses caused by bombing were closed when they had only had 23 patients after ten weeks of the Blitz. In similar fashion, the number of patients admitted to London hospitals with neurotic illnesses declined during the Blitz, as did suicides."

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