Countdown to War

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On Friday 1st September 1939, Hitler's Nazi forces invaded Poland. By Sunday morning, Britain had declared war. JJ Chalmers and Raksha Dave visit key locations, meet historians and unearth startling archive material. Just how did ordinary Brits react to the prospect of war?

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