Perspectives
Discover some different perpectives on the war:
Whose war was it anyway?
Sixty years on, how are we to judge the roles the nation played during the Second World War - was it really the people's war?
Listening to the past
Listening to the witnesses of history can provide a valuable counterpoint to official accounts. More than ever, we're valuing oral history.
A calculated victory
The ability to shift and analyse data has always been crucial in warfare - in the Second World War, that process became mechanised for the first time. It was the birth of modern computing.
Safe but isolated
The mass evacuation would have an effect on the social fabric of the UK after the war - just one side effect of children on the move.
Content last updated: 10/08/2006
