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    Dec 03, 2019 2 minutes

    IN THE AUTUMN OF 1939, the British War Office requisitioned a large mansion in north London called Trent Park. Their reasoning was mysterious: the house was earmarked for “special purposes,” and the work undertaken there was kept strictly under wraps. No locals had any idea as to what was taking place behind its walls.

    This was precisely as intended, for Trent Park was the site of

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