Mick Hartley

The Atlantic's In Focus are running a 20-part series World War II in Photos every Sunday. Today we're up to Part 4, The Battle of Britain:

[AP Photo]

A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop following an air raid on October 8, 1940, reading a book titled "The History of London."

Posed, I would guess, but it's still a resonant image, and not one I'd seen before.