The Blitz: An Alternative History
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of the Docks
The idea was to attack the area of supply, the docks where things come in. We'll attack the centre of government, and we will attack the people. So that was the beginning. By after a few months it seems as though this wasn't particularly working they broadened out into provincial cities. That's when so many of the cities and towns of britain started receiving these heavy, extraordinarily terrifying raids. And some very strange bombing raids w you know, bombs were actually dropped on dublin,. probably by mistake, but,you know, ireland wasn't neutral.
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