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CITIES AT WAR: THE FIRST CITY -- LONDON, PTS. 3 AND
4 (TV)

Summary

Continued from T81:0716. Parts three and four. The concluding parts in this series of documentaries about the people who lived in three different cities -- London, Berlin, and Leningrad -- during the devastation of World War II. This program focuses on London, the first city to be subjected to the "total war" concept of aerial bombardment. In London, the first city to endure rocket attack, a tenth of the city was lost and 30,000 killed, but the Blitz failed to demoralize the population. Highlights of this portion, with recollections by people who lived through the era, include the following: St. Paul's Cathedral survives the Dec. 29, 1940, great fire of London, caused by 3,000 incendiary bombs; people adapt and factories carry on in spite of the bombardment; the incendiary raid and activities of the fire control groups; Myra Hess offers midday concerts of classical music; D-Day, June 6, 1944; V-1 flying bombs, pilotless aerial torpedoes, fall over London on June 13, 1944; V-2 rocket bombs, the forerunner of today's intercontinental ballistic missiles, rain on London until March 27, 1945; and Winston Churchill's announcement on May 8, 1945 of V-E Day and the war's end.

Details

  • NETWORK: PBS
  • DATE: November 18, 1983 Friday 10:30 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: T81:0717
  • GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Blitzkrieg; Britain, Battle of, 1940; D-Day; Granada collection; Great Britain - Officials - Talk/Interviews; London - Bombardment, 1940-1945; London - Sieges, 1940-1945; Normandy, Invasion of; V-1 (flying bomb); V-2 (rocket bomb); V-E Day; World War II - 1940; World War II - 1941; World War II - 1944; World War II - 1945; World War II - 1945 - Cease Fire
  • SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1983
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Michael Wooller … Executive Producer
  • Michael Darlow … Producer, Director
  • Bruce Norman … Writer, Researcher
  • Michael Goodliffe … Narrator
  • William Sansom … Production (Misc.), Consultant
  • Winston S. Churchill
  • Myra Hess