The phrase "about the blitz" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a topic related to the blitz, which may refer to a specific event, such as the bombing campaign during World War II, or a more general concept of a sudden, intense attack.
Example: "The documentary provided insightful information about the blitz and its impact on London during the war."
Alternatives: "regarding the blitz" or "concerning the blitz".
I've learned about the blitz, the sacrifices made for St . Pauls.
We know a lot about the blitz over England but little about the Nazi bombings of Poland in 1939.
The other book I'd recommend is less well-known, but equally worth searching out: Robert Westall's Blitzcat, a fantastically evocative novel about the Blitz.
Murrow's special significance was in making Americans see, through his broadcasts about the Blitz, that the European war was not something faraway and irrelevant.
All the talk about the "Blitz spirit" comes from people who have never known what it is to truly fear everything crashing down around you.
"What about the Blitz?" "We did have to stop for five days when a high-explosive bomb was dropped outside and had to be defused," he conceded.
The 87 poets in it wrote about war service, the blitz, the holocaust, and again, of course, bereavement.
Or even another film like "Hope and Glory" (1987), his audacious, poetic comedy about London during the blitz.
Graham Greene revelled in this atmosphere: "there was something rather wonderful about London in the blitz, with no street lights, no traffic and no pedestrians to speak of: just an empty dark city, torn with great explosions, racked with ack-ack fire, lit with lurid flames, acrid smoke, its air full of the dust of fallen buildings".
"Then I remembered the stories my mother had told me about children she had nursed during the Blitz, about the boy who had never slept in a bed before, and the boy whose mother sewed his underwear lining with newspaper during the winter and had to unpick it in the summer.
The New Yorker, September 14, 1940 P. 36 LETTER FROM LONDON about the start of the Blitz; Londoners are adapting themselves in all kinds of ways to the present situation; the first anniversary of the declaration of war.
