Letters of Love in WW2
- History
- Society & Culture · Documentary, Personal Journals
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From North Africa, back to Britain and then through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two real people that lived through it. Three months after they wed, Cyril and Olga Mowforth found themselves separated by the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1946, their love was kept alive on the pages of a thousand letters and postcards, found decades later by their family after they had both passed on. With their family’s poignant and emotional interviews bookending each episode and featuring the voices of Mr Bates vs The Post Of...
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Recent episodes
- Extra: Interview with Ancestry genealogist Simon Pearce
- Extra: Memories of Cyril and Olga
- Extra: The importance of the letters to the family
- Extra: The family on Cyril and Olga's wartime experiences
- 8. VE Day: Grief and Relief
- 7. Bergen-Belsen: Sorrow and Shock
- 6. Germany: On the Approach
- 5. D-Day: Visitations
- 4. El Alamein: Silence and Roses
- 3. Siege of Tobruk: Battlefields and Reality