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Thank you. and be part of a story you'll be proud to share. Politicians and generals today talk a lot about the need for exit plans to be established

if conflict erupts between nations. In the middle of the horrors of the Second World War,

Britain's diplomats were doing exactly that, working hard to think what peace would look like after the fighting. Lord Peter Ricketts,

the former head of Britain's diplomatic service and the author of Peacemakers, Shaping the Modern

World, the men and women of the Foreign Office in the Second World War,

spoke to David Musgrove for this episode of The History Extra podcast. He explains the key role

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