World War II in Pictures- Civilians browse the remains of the London Library after a devastating German bombing, 1940.

London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941, during Germany's Blitz in the Second World War. More than one million London houses were destroyed or damaged, and more than 40,000 civilians were killed, almost half of them in London.