2.
In the years leading up to the Second
World War, the British government was
worried. If, in the event of war, the
German Air Force launched a major air
offensive against London, the British
military command believed that there
was nothing they could do to stop it.
Basil Liddell Hart, one of the foremost
military theorists of the day, estimated
that in the first week of any German
attack, London could see a quarter of a
million civilian deaths and injuries.
Winston Churchill described London as
“the greatest target in the world, a kind
of tremendous, fat, valuable cow, tied up