Once there were four children named Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a houeskeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his
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This refers to World War II from 1939-1945. England fought German expansion.
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Air-Raids
During World War II, the German planes were flown over England to drop bombs. The people hid in the shelters underground for protection.