For the next ten weeks, The Daily Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk will publish a weekly feature by leading historian Andrew Roberts on the key themes of the Second World War. The features will be illustrated by short videos with historic footage from the period.
Telegraph readers will be encouraged to share their memories of wartime experiences, home and abroad, either online or by writing to the Telegraph. Their memories will serve to create a database of memories that can be passed down to future generations.
An article from the Telegraph archive will be published each day online, showing the drumbeat to war. Britain at War can be found in full at .
Marcus Warren, Editor, Telegraph.co.uk, said: "This is another very exciting project. Besides analysis from household names and content from our archive, video and readers' memories will be making a key contribution to our understanding of the past."