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Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Snake Hips Johnson and the Kruver German Bomber

Bombs shriek and whistling as they pick up speed. The oddities of bomb blasts mean that musicians to their left and right are entirely unscathed, while others have been cut to ribbons. Some dancers haven't so much as a hair out of place, but are stone dead. Around 34 staff and guests are dead.

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