London still under threat

28th January 1945: Londoners struggle with the cold and shortages - and must adjust to intermittent V2 'frights'

War Artist Stephen Bone's impression of a V2 being launched during the amphibious assault on Walcheren island on the 1 November 1944, with HMS Warspite bombarding German positions.

It might well appear that the war must surely end soon but in Britain, and in London in particular, there was no sense that the war was 'winding down'. When the weather was co…