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    THE HOME FRONT

    Apr 07, 2020 3 minutes

    A sense of national pride stems from our collective vision of life on the Home Front. We like to see ourselves as the plucky outsiders who knuckled down and endured.

    When George VI spoke to the nation via radio on the evening of 3 September 1939, he told listeners to expect difficult times ahead. Indeed, Operation Pied Piper had already begun, which would see thousands of children and other “vulnerable civilians” moved

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