The Luftwaffe carried out raids on British urban targets for two months prior to the start of the Blitz, with the loss of over ... how German planes dropped the first bombs on central London.

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved from a Middle Eastern species over thousands of years. In their paper ...

Barrage balloons were placed in the skies above London to try and stop the German bombers from coming in too ... By the end of 1939 over 1.5 million men had been brought in to join the British ...