Hell's Angels
Here in the story
City
At Oxford, the idealist Roy, the womaniser Monte and their German friend Karl hope a war between their countries never comes.
What happened here
In 1914 Oxford's colleges emptied as students volunteered, and many never returned; Vera Brittain left Somerville College in 1915 to nurse as a VAD, while Somerville itself became a military hospital. Between the wars the university embodied a new pacifism: in February 1933 the Oxford Union voted that it would not fight for King and Country, a debate watched closely abroad.
Films and series set in Oxford
Testament of Youth
Here in the story
City
Vera starts at Oxford while Roland, Edward and Victor put on uniforms, and the casualty lists in the newspapers grow longer.
Munich – The Edge of War
Here in the story
Home
Hugh Legat and his German friend Paul von Hartmann celebrate their graduation, with Paul full of enthusiasm for a 'new Germany'.
Events at Oxford
Technology
First Bombe at Bletchley Park
Building on Polish breakthroughs, Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman designed an electromechanical machine to find the daily Enigma settings, and the first was installed at Bletchley Park. The intelligence it produced, known as Ultra, helped the Allies in almost every theatre.
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