On this day, 3rd September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. Listening to this solemn announcement from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain still sends shivers down my spine. We know that six years of bloody war were to come, millions would lose their lives and the world would change forever.

Listen to the recording of Chamberlain via this BBC link.

At Sophie’s Great War Tours, we tell the stories of the ordinary men and women that often did extraordinary things to help defeat a tyrannical dictator and his destructive ideology.