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A collection of "Woeful Second World War" clips from Horrible Histories Series 1 - 5 along with Wily Winston Churchill and Heroic Home Front Horrible History special episodes

Clip 1: “The Heroic Carrier Pigeon” (animated); POW camp - 04:49

Clip 2: Twisted Fairytales “Cinderella”; fake nylon stockings - 02:34

Clip 3: Evacuees; Hitler Youth - 04:32

Clip 4: Churchill; The Home Guard - 04:24

Clip 5: Hiding military installations; wrapping children in brown paper - 03:46

Clip 6: Song: “We’re the WWII Girls”; Churchill plans D-Day - 04:59

Clip 7: Keeping warm at Stalingrad; Russian anti-tank dog bombs (animated) - 03:41

Clip 8: Anderson Bomb Shelter (advert); evacuees

Clip 9: Codebreakers; spy gadgets - 04:32

Clip 10: Baedecker Blitz; song: “The Few (RAF Pilots)” - 05:15

Clip 11: German railway spies; petrol rationing (animated) - 03:30

Clip 12: News of D-Day reaches Germany; U-Boat toilets (animated) - 03:33

Clip 13: MI5 recruitment; “Historical Masterchef” - Berlin housewife - 05:14

Clip 14: Chamberlain’s peace settlement; “Winston Churchill: Britain’s Wittiest Man” - 04:58

Clip 15: Bat bombs - 03:09 Clip 16: German canine spies; Corporal Wojtek (animated) - 06:14

Clip 17: Sorby Research Institute; future Queen Elizabeth, wartime mechanic (advert) - 02:42

Clip 18: Bob Hale’s World War II Report - 04:18

Clip 19: Hyperinflation in Germany; “Yankee Crazy” (magazine parody comparing British and American soldiers) - 04:12

Clip 20: Carlton Ladies Club (animated); Home Front gardening with Alan Smallbog - 02:42

Wily Winston Churchill Special Episode
This episode follows Winston Churchill from a young soldier in India during the time of Queen Victoria, through the First World War, to victory in World War II, and finally to his retirement in the Swinging Sixties. Meanwhile across the world, meet the American soldier literally spreading propaganda around the battlefields, and learn about Gandhi's more eccentric side.

Heroic Home Front Special Episode
This episode looks at how the war affected those left back home in the UK, on the home front, beginning with the initial panic following the declaration of war, and the measures taken at home to prepare for an imminent Nazi invasion.

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