Coronavirus gave documentary VE Day: A Nation at Peace a grim relevance – review
Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service drive through Trafalgar Square during the celebrations in 1945: A Nation at Peace , they must have thought it would be a harmless piece of anniversary viewing on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. Churchill droning on, dancing in the streets, happy soldiers kissing their sweethearts: a relaxing Sunday-night nostalgia-fest.
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