Summary

Chapter 44: The Luftwaffe arrived in London at teatime. As previous targets had been military, the RAF was stationed over those locations and the defense of London suffered. Civilians recount the experience of the attack in which houses and buildings were bombed and destroyed. Bombs fell throughout the night killing over 400 people and injuring 1600 more.

Chapter 45: Churchill rushed back to London from Chequers and his presence fortified its citizens, improving their morale though bombers returned the following night. Beaverbrook rushed through an emergency plan to decentralize manufacturing and storage so that aircraft and their production would not be vulnerable to a single well-directed German attack. Meanwhile, in Germany, Rudolf Hess and another man named Albrecht Haushofer sent a cryptic letter to the Duke of Hamilton, signed only "A". As attacks on London continued, it was decided that Mary Churchill would live...