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Do mention the war

Updated on 07 November 2008

By Nina Teggarty

Ahead of Remembrance Day More4 News looks at how Britain thinks about the second world war and why it remains much more than simply an historical event.

The war, which ended in 1945, is fading rapidly from living memory, but its life in books, films and national heritage is thriving now more than ever, as Nina Teggarty reports.

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