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Seventy years ago today, Britain and France (along with New Zealand and Australia) declared war on Germany, two days after Hitler invaded Poland. Molly Panter-Downes, writing from London, captured the ...

Just after 500,000 young people were evacuated from London, an Atlantic correspondent roamed the streets of the city, reporting on the weirdness of a metropolis suddenly missing a generation. In 1939, ...

I was 25 when the war broke out. On that September morning, my parents and I stood in our kitchen and listened to the wireless. The Prime Minister's voice - solemn and slow "... and therefore we are ...