This recording of Major General ‘Roy’ Urquhart CB DSO & Bar, commanding 1st Airborne Division, is said to have been made in October 1944. In it he recounts his unit’s engagements at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. It must be one of the earliest recorded accounts of the fighting made after it…
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Ravilious: An Artist at War
Eric William Ravilious was a British artist who, although born in London, was well known for his paintings of the Sussex landscape. He was part of a group of artists that lived and worked in Sussex before the war who did not just paint, they used many methods and skills including producing woodcuts. His landscapes of…
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