LONDON IN 1943

The 1944 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 1943) included the article London, reproduced below. It was written by Preston Benson, who also described events there for the following year (1944) and for 1945. Benson was a journalist for the London Star and the author of Unknown Country: The Story of Czechoslovakia (1942). London in 1943 See also classic Britannica Book of the Year articles covering the events of 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, and 1945. For excerpts from early editions of Encyclopdia Britannica, see BTW: London Classics. For general treatment, see the current Britannica articles London and World War II.