Blitz, World War II and Steve McQueen

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners’ resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial bombing campaign Gregory Wakeman Freelance Writer The Blitz began on ...
Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships brought on by the Blitz and the scenes that are based on real people ...
The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two. The raids killed 43,000 civilians and lasted for eight months, petering out when Hitler began to ...
As Saoirse Ronan stars in Steve McQueen's new film set during the aerial bombings of British cities, historian Joshua Levine ...