http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/blitz Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:06:15 -0400 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:06:15 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/406/britain-can-take-it-rethinking-british-morale-in-1940 By Craig Stewart-Hunter - The bombardment, or Blitz, of British cities by the Luftwaffe between September 1940 and May 1941, has been idolized and ‘mythologized’ in the popular memory and imagery as one of Britain’s finest moments of togetherness and national unity. The raids by the German Luftwaffe were mainly concentrated on British urban industrial cities and ports, killing approximately 66,000 civilians (amount killed by end of war through bombing)[3], from all walks of life. Clausewitz argued that the population's ‘involvement determined the intensity with which the war would be waged,&rsquo... Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:47 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/406/britain-can-take-it-rethinking-british-morale-in-1940