![]() ![]() Armed with this information the script-writers could get on with their work in the knowledge that the history they were weaving into the scripts was as accurate as possible. ![]() The second series, by comparison, is set against the dramatic summer of 1940 when the Allies retreated from Dunkirk, France was occupied by the Germans, invasion loomed and the Battle of Britain was fought in the skies. The country was at war but nothing was actually happening. For the first series I emphasised the mood in Britain during the Phoney War, when a kind of paralysis set in. We all know how the Second World War ended but in 1939 there was no certainty of outcome and certainly not in 1940 when everything looked very bleak. The book is there to be mined but what I can also offer is perspective on the view from the Home Front at the time. Her books include :Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine a biography of her grandfather, the man who built the 'real' bridge over the River Kwai, The Colonel of Tamarkan, Stranger in the House and When the Children Came Home,a social history of servicemen returning to their families from the Second World War. ![]() My role is to produce the history of the war and the situation at the time of the WI. Julie Summers is a bestselling writer, researcher and historian. I have the pleasure and excitement of being involved in story-lining. ![]()
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