Letters of Love in WW2
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Letters of Love in WW2
From North Africa, back to Britain and then through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two real people that lived through it. Three months after they wed, Cyril and Olga Mowforth found themselves separated by the Se...
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12 эпизодовExtra: Memories of Cyril and Olga
“He was doing 100 press-ups every morning.”
The Mowforth family share some of their fond memories of Cyril and Olga.
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Extra: The importance of the letters to the family
"It's massively important, historically, to find these letters. It's going to be one of the last eras where that's going to happen."
The Mowfort...
Extra: The family on Cyril and Olga's wartime experiences
"I really wish, like so many people, that you could have had an extra hour or two to ask these things of your parents."
Cyril and Olga's letters...
8. VE Day: Grief and Relief
As Germany officially surrenders, Cyril and Olga find hope once again in the fact that their love has survived so many years apart. They will go one t...
7. Bergen-Belsen: Sorrow and Shock
As Olga gets a taste of Germany’s ‘Flying Bombs’ in Sheffield, Cyril knows the end of the war is coming as he drives the lead tank of his unit through...
6. Germany: On the Approach
Cyril joins the British Liberation Army as a Corporal, beginning the trek from Normandy across Belgium and Holland en route to Germany. The pace of hi...
5. D-Day: Visitations
As troops prepare for the invasion of Normandy, Cyril is suddenly sent back to British soil to retrieve a new, heavier, tank, surprising Olga for a sh...
4. El Alamein: Silence and Roses
Frustrations are high for Cyril who suffers periods of illness and depression triggered by long periods of idleness. As the couple cross the eighteen-...
3. Siege of Tobruk: Battlefields and Reality
The realities of war hit when, after a long gap in correspondence, Cyril reveals in one long letter that he has been involved in the siege of Tobruk....
2. North Africa: Lost Messages
Cyril and Olga face months of agonising delays in their letters to one another, and they get a taste of the frustrations to come. Olga, facing air rai...
1. At Sea: Optimistic Goodbyes
When Sue Mowforth found a bundle of letters written by her belated parents, she was about to uncover the love story that made her family who they are...
The history of the Second World War told through one couple's letters
This is the history of WW2 told in way you've never heard it before: through the letters of a real-life couple who lived through it and the interviews...