🎧 The Forgotten Novels of World War Two
🎧 Historical Fiction
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In 2019 four novels that had long been out of print were re-published in the Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics series. It aims to give forgotten novels set in the Second World War a new lease of life. Two more are now being published, novels that take the reader right into the heart of the conflict. Rob Weinberg has been finding out more from Alan Jeffreys, Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum.
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