Much of that resilience came from Winston Churchill’s radio talks.
We know some Brit survivors from WWII as friends.
Besides the bombing, much of London was without heat or electricity to make the survivors miserable.
Food was rationed as well as everyday clothing undies, socks and simple undershirts.
Often they didn’t hear from their service men in Africa and other areas. Ships were seldom in a home port.
After the war was over, food and common everyday stuff was scarce and often not available over a year.
One of our friends left at the age 18 to get warm and to eat on a regular basis. She went to Canada and it was cold and not much better except for the food. She met a Yank airman and married him and has never returned to the old sod.
In the years after WW II, the British embraced socialism and, mired in a weak economy, often displayed a resentful and surly attitude toward Americans. It seemed a cosmic injustice to many Brits that they won the war but America seemed to reap the greatest benefit, going from strength to strength and becoming the world’s most powerful nation.