But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
—Winston Churchill
—Winston ChurchillHouse of Commons
House of CommonsJune 18, 1940
June 18, 1940London
LondonLondonSeptember 7, 1940
September 7, 1940September 7, 1940It was the silence between air-raid drills that frightened Elizabeth Mowbray the most. The deathly hush this particular afternoon had transformed London from a bustling city to an eerie s
