The Second World War; Volume III--The Grand Alliance Book I--Germany Drives East INSTALLMENT 2: BLITZ OF 1941; ARRIVAL OF HESS By Winston Churchill: The Second World War INSTALLMENT 2--BLITZ OF 1941; ARRIVAL OF HESS
AT the end of 1940 Hitler had realised that Britain could not be destroyed by direct air assault. The Battle of Britain had been his first defeat, and the malignant bombing of the cities had not cowed the nation or its Government.