'Making Ready for the Battle of Britain'

5th July 1940: Across the country, people expect the invasion to be imminent, probably led by airborne troops and parachutists

Church bells were now silenced, to be used only as an alarm in the event of the expected invasion.

‘The War Illustrated - A Pictorial Record of the Conflict of the Nations’ had been an enormously successful weekly magazine during the First World War. With sales of over 750,000 at its peak, it covered every week of the war and was to become available afte…