David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

flying in every direction. The
incendiaries left a different
neighborhood in flames every night.
More than a million people lost their
homes. Thousands crammed into
makeshift shelters in subway stations
every night. Outside, between the
thunder of planes overhead, the thud of
explosions, the rattle of anti-aircraft
guns, and the endless wails of
ambulances, fire engines, and warning
sirens, the noise was unrelenting. In one
survey of Londoners, on the night of
September 12, 1940, a third said that
they had gotten no sleep the night before,
and another third said they got fewer
than four hours. Can you imagine how
New Yorkers would have reacted if one