Countdown to World War Two: Monday 28 August 1939

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• 1. Mission to Berlin
• 2. Parliament recalled
• 3. Emergency regulations
• 4. Evacuation
• 5. Coventry bomb
• 6. Mediterranean out of bounds
• 7. Audio archive: The countdown to war
• 8. Find out more
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Books

The conduct of the Air War in the Second World War edited by Horst Boog (1992)

Bomber Command by Max Hastings (1979)

The Bomber Command War Diaries by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt (1985)

Most Secret War by RV Jones (1978)

Links

Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum: Bomber Command

About the author

Mark Fielder is executive producer of the BBC Battlefields series. He has made many other series, including D-Day, Burma, War Walks, and Western Front.

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Published: 2001-09-01