War Diaries 1939, 1940 (? Date) DVD
 
"1939"
Follow the prelude to war, how the Treaty of Versailles, drawn up after the First World War, failed to keep the peace. Watch the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. See the preparations made by the people of Britain as war became inevitable. Learn of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wish for appeasement against the plea for action from Winston Churchill. This is modern history at its most evocative, recorded for posterity by the people who lived through this incredible time and survived to tell the tale.
 
"1940"
In this second film of the series, 1940, we follow Adolf Hitler's trail of occupation into Denmark and Norway, which forced the resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
 
See for yourself what happened the very day Winston Churchill became Britain's wartime leader, while Hitler's Blitzkrieg ripped through the Low Countries and France.
 
Witness the "Miracle of Dunkirk" when more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were safely snatched, quite literally from Hitler's grasp and then look to the skies for the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.
As the casualties of war rise with the fall of Paris and the bombing of London, discover what happened when every man, woman and child in Britain joined the fight for freedom.
 
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