The Blitz (the London Blitz) was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7th September 1940 and 10th May 1941 during the World War Two.
Every night bar one for ten solid weeks, from 7 September to 14 November 1940, London was attacked by an average of 160 bombers.
Thereafter, until 10 May, the capital was attacked more spasmodically, as other British cities were bombed on other nights– Southampton, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Hull, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Belfast.
The first night of the London Blitz– 7 September– was one of the worst.
The night bombers followed daylight raiders, and the fires already started in the docks guided the second wave to its targets. More than 400 were killed and 1,600 seriously injured. The 15 October was another very bad night. Four hundred bombers dropped 540 tons of high explosive, causing massive disruption to the entire transport network, rail, tube, and road.
When the London Blitz finally ended in the early hours of 11 May 1941– though the inhabitants did not know it, expecting the ‘knockout blow’ to come the following night– 28,556 Londoners had been killed and 25,578 seriously enough injured to require hospital care.
Across Britain, two million homes had been damaged or destroyed, but the majority of these were in the capital, where 1.5 million people were homeless.
"Blitz WW2 - The Battle of London." Military History Monthly. 22 Jan. 2011. Web. 14 Mar. 2015. <http://www.military-history.org/articles/world-war-2/blitz- ww2.htm>.
The magazine Military History Monthly is able to mathematically explain the aftermath and effects of The London Blitz. An easy to read and simple summary of the tragic nights of WWII ordered by Adolph Hitler to demoralize the British population. Besides, Military History also goes in-depth with the causes for The Blitz, starting with World War I and the start of air-power.