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Historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War.

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Strange Days: Cold War Britain: Original Series: Episode 2: The Looking Glass War

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Episode 2: The Looking Glass War

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The Looking Glass War

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Dominic Sandbrook looks at the frontline of the conflict.

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

Historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War. For Sandbrook these are the years in which we were both more secure and prosperous that we had ever been - and at the same time, lived everyday with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation. This is not just a story of the superpower arms race or daring spies, real and fictional, it is a story in which all we played a crucial part.

In the second episode, Dominic looks at the frontline of the conflict as a newly prosperous Britain of consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

Strange Days: Cold War Britain: Original Series

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