LONDON IN 1945

With the war drawing to a close, Londoners could again approach semblances of normalcy. The text following is the article London from the 1946 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 1945), contributed by Preston Benson, who also described the metropolis in 1943 and 1944. Benson was a journalist for the London Star and the author of Unknown Country: The Story of Czechoslovakia (1942). London in 1945 See also Britannica Book of the Year articles covering the events of 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944. 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.