The first consisted of democratic nations where people elected their own governments.Such countries included Britain, France, the Low Countries (the Netherlands and Belgium),Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and the US.

SIMON ADAMS in association with the IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Be an eyewitness to the turbulent and terrifying events of World War II - from the Blitz to the atomic bomb.

A world divided

Heading to war

Preparing for the worst

Lightning attack

Occupation

Resistance

In the German army

The Battle of Britain

Bombing raids

Total war

In enemy territory

The prisoners

Code-breakers

America in the war

Women at work

A wartime childhood

Battle for the Pacific

Japan at war

The Battle of the Atlantic

Road to Stalingrad

Inside the Soviet Union

Fighting in the desert

Propaganda and morale

The Holocaust

D-Day invasion

Liberation

The atomic bomb

Victory

The aftermath

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