I can promise you that London town is free of anxiety, terror, and despair. The residents of Churchill’s island are characterized by their unwavering courage, confidence, and resolve.
In the British propaganda short London Can Take It, which was published in November 1940 as the Nazi bombing campaign over the United Kingdom, known as the blitz, began its third unrelenting month, US war correspondent Quentin Reynolds makes this claim. The movie solidified the notion that the British people had an unbreakable “blitz spirit”—a stoic yet joyous defiance that helped bring about fascism’s eventual downfall.
Regardless of political affiliation, the cultural and political significance of this story has proven to be seductive. According to Angus Calder, a writer and historian, “the mythical events of 1940 would become subjects for historical nostalgia on the left as well as on the right” (Blitz, 1991).
