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Extra: The importance of the letters to the family

Letters of Love in WW2 by A+E Networks UK

Aug 18, 20209:28Society & Culture

"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 Mowforth family share their thoughts on what finding Cyril and Olga's correspondenc...

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