With Britain in lockdown during the Coronavirus outbreak, the Blitz Spirit has been invoked again and again.  It was the time, in 1940 and throughout the war, when the British people were at their best.
Or were they?
Is the Blitz a fitting model for how we conduct ourselves during the Corvid-19 crisis?  Or is it a myth?  Were we as noble in suffering then as we like to think?  Or was self-interest, opportunism and cheating the system just as rife then?
Let's examine the Myth of the Blitz Spirit.