Eighty years ago, Britain stood alone against the might of the German war machine.
France had been defeated, and the Battle of Britain had raged in the skies for four months.
The Blitz had destroyed huge swathes of the nation’s cities, while Hitler had launched Operation Sealion - his plan to invade the UK.
Now, as the nation marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Britain, thousands of dramatic images of the Second World War at home and abroad can now be seen for the first time in generations.
The striking images, contained in the huge Mirrorpix archive, have been digitised for the first time, and will be available from tomorrow in a four-part series only in the Daily Express.
Across the UK the pictures told a similar story, as the terrible onslaught caused horrific damage that would take decades to recover from.
But as the images show, the spirit of the people bearing the brunt of the suffering could not be broken.
The People’s War In Pictures is a collectible partwork series that will run in the Daily Express over four days, starting tomorrow, October 30, with brilliant photographs, unseen for decades, that paint a picture portrait of the spirit which helped Britain survive its darkest hours.
