Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. This is a timeline of the almost ...

“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...

Blitz opens in theaters November 1 and streams on Apple TV+ beginning November 22. This review is based on a screening at the 62nd New York Film Festival. There are moments during Blitz when falling ...

After witnessing the German 'blitzkrieg' tearing through Poland and the Sudetenland, Brits were braced for a similar assault when war was declared on 1 September 1939. Blackout regulations were ...

After failing to take out Britain's fighter command in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe changed tactics. It decided it would terrorise Britain's population into submission. And so on this day in ...

Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” is a triumph of production design; unfortunately, what it triumphs over is story. An epic re-creation of life in London during Hitler’s bombing campaign of 1940 and 1941, the ...

A new Red Plaque has been unveiled in Sheffield’s Pound’s Park in tribute to eight firefighters who died during the first day of the Sheffield Blitz, 1940. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

In her debut nonfiction account, British historian Gaskin spotlights the heart of London on the night of December 29, 1940, when Adolf Hitler tried to convince Britain the war was lost by burning ...

Sheffield’s Wartime Children Speak Out in Major New Heritage Book ...