Air Quote by George Orwell

They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It…

— Winston Churchill

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc…

— Osbert Sitwell

“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister,…

— William Stevenson

“Germany had bombed Britain, and Britain had bombed back, and had gotten pretty good at it. In 1943 they had started a firestorm that…

— Lee Child

“rejection, ordered a series of aerial attacks on the Royal Air Force bases and radar stations in southeast England. By the end of October,…

— Hourly History

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as…

— Hermann Goring

I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the…

— Norman Davies

The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent…

— George Friedman

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

— David Irving

These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians,…

— Winston Churchill

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but…

— John Mearsheimer