Letters of Love in WW2

By Sky HISTORY

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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 Second World War. Between 1940 and 1946, their love was kept alive on the pages of a thousand letters and postcards, found decades later by their family after they had both passed on. With their family’s poignant and emotional interviews bookending each episode and featuring the voices of Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Downton Abbey’s Amy Nuttall and Afropean author and broadcaster Johny Pitts, Letters of Love in WW2 gives an incredible first-hand insight into what it was like to live through this tumultuous period.



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Episode Date
Extra: Memories of Cyril and Olga
Aug 25, 2020
Extra: The importance of the letters to the family
Aug 18, 2020
Extra: The family on Cyril and Olga's wartime experiences
May 07, 2020
8. VE Day: Grief and Relief
Jul 25, 2019
7. Bergen-Belsen: Sorrow and Shock
Jul 18, 2019
6. Germany: On the Approach
Jul 11, 2019
5. D-Day: Visitations
Jul 04, 2019
4. El Alamein: Silence and Roses
Jun 27, 2019
3. Siege of Tobruk: Battlefields and Reality
Jun 20, 2019
2. North Africa: Lost Messages
Jun 13, 2019
1. At Sea: Optimistic Goodbyes
Jun 06, 2019
The history of the Second World War told through one couple's letters
May 23, 2019