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![]() ![]() ![]() Led by the gung-ho Millis Jefferis, the men and women who worked at Churchill’s Toyshop, as it became known, devised many of the key weapons of the Second World War. Their task was to build devastating new weaponry that could be used against the Nazis. This rambling Edwardian mansion had become home to an eccentric band of scientists, inventors and blue-stockings. ![]() To local villagers, it looked like a prison camp. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates and barbed wire was strung around the perimeter fence. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. No such warfare had ever been waged by mortal men’ Winston Churchill ‘This was a secret war whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public. ![]()
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