Peggy (Collins) Halstead was an infant at the beginning of WW II and living in London which was subjected to an enemy bombardment that killed friends and neighbours, destroyed blocks of homes, some next door to her own home - and terrified people, children in particular. In this brief account of her memory of those days she succeeds in making her experiences immediate and powerful and illuminates again that period in history: the terror, the courage, the suffering from cold, hunger and loss, and also, the after affects of such an experience on an innocent child.