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    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.

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    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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