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VE Day, fifty years on
The American press reports on the end of the war in Europe, and the comparatively minor celebrations in the US, as remembered by Alistair Cooke, fifty years after VE Day.
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Fri 5 May 1995
21:00
麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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- Fri 5 May 1995 21:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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