These Historical Photos Will Make You Wish You Could Turn Back Time

A Boy Reading in a London Bookshop After Heavy Bombing

This British boy was photographed in 1940, and he clearly loved to read at this London bookshop. Perhaps he was simply distracting himself from the fact that the area had experienced heavy bombing the night before. This was actually pretty common during World War II. In fact, 23,000 British folks were killed by Nazi forces in 1940. The bookstore in this photograph had clearly suffered heavy damage from one of the many blasts.