Sentences with phrase «during bombing raids»

With the help of her accordion - playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

First the zoo sustains major damages during a bombing raid, and then German soldiers take over the compound and use it as an armory.

Not exact matches

On the fifth day, British Special Air Service — an elite reserve force that typically intervenes during extreme hostage situations and counterterrorism raids — stormed the prison with smoke bombs and stun guns, according to The Scotsman.

Once when the bunker in which the «prominent» prisoners were kept was hit directly during a heavy bombing raid, the prisoners began to scream wildly, but Bonhoeffer stood quietly.

I lived a short walk from Highbury in Finsbury Park but the Germans had bombed our state - of - the - art stadium during one of the Luftwaffe's many air raids.

I was among those shouting out at Song for his bombing raids, but I now realized during the Chelsea game (he did the same thing for several matches) that it was the pattern he was told to play by Wenger.

Damage from the London fogs and the encroachment of the Thames, terrorist bombs and the extensive damage during the great air raid of the 10 May 1941 which destroyed the Commons Chamber.

ALLIED bombing raids during the second world war inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails over south - east England.

During the Blitz, bombing raids instead focused on civilian and industrial targets in London and other cities.

From mad wallpaper - maker William Morris's Red House in Bexleyheath to Kurt Schwitter's fabled Merzbau in Hanover (which was destroyed during an Allied bombing raid) to Max Ernst's remote deserst compound in Arizona, the fantastically designed homes in this gorgeously illustrated book are important expressions of the artists» inner lives.

As a child, he and his family hid in the basement during air raids where he could hear and feel the explosions and bombings but had to resort to his imagination to visualize them.

Brandt followed crowds during the nightly air raids and produced eerily beautiful images of the makeshift bomb shelters and the people who fled to them.

Somewhat appropriately for an anti-war style of artwork, it was destroyed during an allied bombing raid in 1943.