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Britain's Finest Hour

mong the family documents I inherited when my grandfather died in 1988 was a brown envelope on which my grandmother (who had died 15 years earlier) had written 'Grave Papers'. It contained a miscellany of items, including a certificate issued by the City of Manchester on 26 April 1941, confirming that Grandad was appointed as an air raid warden; a letter from the chief constable of

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