Browse Descriptions for: Churchill War Rooms

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Concealed beneath the government buildings of Whitehall in central London, the Churchill War Rooms preserve the underground bunker from which Winston Churchill and his war cabinet directed the British effort during the Second World War. Created in the late 1930s as the threat of war loomed, the cramped, fortified basement provided a secure command centre safe from the bombing that devastated the city above, and it remained in continuous use through the conflict. When the war ended the rooms were...

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