History of War

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Studio: Mad As Birds Director: Andy Goddard Released: Out now

An English school teeming with the daughters of Nazi high command and run by fiercely pro-German teachers with WWII looming ever closer sounds like the plot of an outlandish thriller. In fact, Augusta Victoria College (located in Bexhill-on-Sea on the East

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