The Battle of Britain Five Months That Changed History, May—October 1940 by James Holland (z-lib.org).epub

Raymond Lee had gone out to dinner that night – with the writer
Somerset Maugham amongst other guests – since no-one had thought to
cancel because of the bombings. Afterwards, he walked back to his club,
and found many of the staff sleeping awkwardly on sofas and on chairs,
evidently feeling safer on the ground floor. He had known the ‘hard
pounding’ was bound to come at some point, but he sensed there would
now be no let-up and that a new phase of the battle had begun. ‘The Boche
has failed to knock out the RAF by attacking the airdromes,’ he wrote to his
wife, ‘has failed to cripple industry by random and widespread bombing,
and has made no impression whatever upon the British civil morale.’