Day War Broke Out
Day War Broke Out Sunday, September 3, 1939: the dawn of a new conflict that would engulf the world, following the words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: "This country is at war with Germany."…
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Day War Broke Out
Sunday, September 3, 1939: the dawn of a new conflict that would engulf the world, following the words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: "This country is at war with Germany." By the time World War II ended in 1945, nearly half a million people from Britain and its empire had lost their lives, and the world had changed forever. Unprecedented hardship lay ahead for a country where free healthcare for all was unknown: strict rationing of food and petrol, conscription for both sexes, and personal tragedy year after year amidst the chaos of Britain's bombed out cities and ports. Eighty years on, a look back at the lives of British people in September 1939 reveals a very different world from the one we know today.
The Day the War Broke Out is a fresh insight into the hearts and minds of a nation on that fateful What was it really like to be living in Britain in September 1939?