The War File: Britain at War – Our Finest Hours

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Box set featuring ‘D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe’, ‘Battle of Britain: The Fight for the Sky’ and ‘Dunkirk: Battle for France’. ‘D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe’ presents an historic account of the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy using archive footage. ‘Battle of Britain: The Fight for the Sky’ looks at the Battle of Britain in1940, where the threat of invasion from Germany was extremely high, and women and children were forced to leave the cities for the countryside, in the case of a major bomb attack. This was a battle Britain had to win, even if they were unprepared for what was to come. But one man had the strategy to hold off the Luftwaffe attack, Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowling. Finally ‘Dunkirk: Battle for France’ presents an historic account of the famous strategic withdrawal.