D-Day to VE Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe

Britain witnesses the final months of war in Europe through contemporary voices, revealing national transformation and hopeful emancipation.

On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their children and their grandchildren.

The following day’s morning newspapers and early radio news bulletins were ...