A German bomber, which was bound for London, had been damaged by the local air defences. The engines were malfunctioning and the crew elected to turn back before reaching London and bomb Brighton instead. I wish to draw your attention to that word ‘instead’ (more accurately, ‘in-the-stead of’). In the spring of 1941, a specific part of London’s commercial and economic buildings were to be destroyed together with people that happened to be in the way. When the bomber changed