British philosopher Philippa Foot (1920–2010) was living in an attic flat in Central London when the Nazis began raining V1 missiles down on the city. At night, sirens and the sounds of nearby explosions would send her rushing into the bathtub for protection from breaking glass; on her way to work in the morning, she would walk by the ruins of still-smoldering buildings hit the night before. Then, as suddenly as they had started, the missiles stopped.
It was only after the war that Foot discovered British double agents had fed the Nazi war machine misleading information about their missile targeting, redirecting them to fall short of the core of the city into South London. The government claimed the ruse had saved ...
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