🎧 1918: The Decisive Year
20th Century
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30m
Richard Van Emden catches up with Dan Snow to talk about the commemoration of the final year of World War One.
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The Second Great Fire of London
On 29 December 1940 London experienced one of its worst nights of the Blitz. German bombers dropped tens of thousands of bombs, destroying more of London than the city's famous Great Fire of 1666. The following morning, a photographer took a picture through the smoke and fire of Saint Paul’s Cath...
