Outbreak: 1939

11-15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months- This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany. Seventy years on from that historic day, this is the definitive oral history of the outbreak of World War Two. Drawing on the Imperial War Museum s extensive archives, and published to coincide with a major exhibition at the museum and an ITV television documentary on the outbreak of the war, this book will feature the personal stories of real men and women who lived through the startling events of that September, as well as those who were actively involved in the politi