STATELY SECRETS
80 years ago, D-Day marked a turning point in the Second World War. Far from the Normandy beaches, a number of stately homes played a pivotal – and top-secret – role in wartime operations
WORDS FELICITY DAY
HISTORY
“D-Day has come,” a BBC newsreader told Britons early on 6 June 1944, Allied forces having launched the largest invasion in history across the Channel in Northern France. Involving 156,000 troops, 11,590 aircraft and almost 7,000 vessels, ‘Operation...
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