SUMMER of 1940: Hitler was on his way, or so most Britons believed.
In Barton, Cambridgeshire, an "invasion committee"
prepared a plan in which the recreation ground would become an emergency cemetery. All bodies were to be labelled, and the burials carried out at night in graves dug shallow to allow for proper burial later. The WI was given responsibility for feeding survivors. A picture emerges of a nation united in adversity - nostalgic now, despite the fear that lay behind it.
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