The Longest Night Voices from the London Blitz 1011 May 1941

<h2>On the night of 10-11 May 1941, the Blitz reached its terrifying peak in the skies over London.</h2><p>Over 500 aircraft and thousands of Luftwaffe aircrew took off for England, laden with hundreds of tonnes of bombs to drop indiscriminately on the capital’s civilians. In a matter of hours, 1,486 Londoners were killed, 11,000 houses were destroyed, and millions of lives were changed for ever.</p><p>This attack almost brought Britain to military collapse. Using extensive survivors'' testimony and hitherto classified documents, <em>The Longest Night</em> reveals how the Luftwaffe came within a whisker of total victory.</p><p><strong>In a gripping, minute-by-minute account, Gavin Mortimer has recreated the experience of Londoners on this one terrifying night when the survival of the country hung in the balance.</strong></p>