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* ActionGirl: Kasia slowly becomes this as a resistance fighter, learning how to use guns and also killing several German soldiers personally.
* BadassInDistress: Kasia, who's slowly become a hardened Polish resistance fighter, nonetheless, gets captured when the Germans ambush her during another honey trap operation. She's captured and then sentenced to death. However, while being marched off to the gallows resistance fighters rescue her.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Upper middle class officer Harry and working class sergeant Stan.
* TheCavalry: Kasia is being sent to the gallows with other Polish prisoners when resistance fighters attack and rescue her.
* TheCavalry: Kasia is being sent to the gallows with other Polish prisoners when resistance fighters attack and rescue her.
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* LikesOlderWomen: Nancy's censor Schmidt (who's at least twenty years younger) it turns out is attracted to her.
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** In retaliation for Kasia's killing an SS soldier, twenty some Polish civilians are shot by a German firing squadpublicly.publicly.
** Later, when Kasia is caught and sentenced to death, she's sent off for the gallows with other Polish prisoners. She's rescued by her resistance group though.
* RapeAsBackstory: Nancy reveals to her nephew Webster that she was once raped years before in Portugal while covering a story.
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** Later, when Kasia is caught and sentenced to death, she's sent off for the gallows with other Polish prisoners. She's rescued by her resistance group though.
* RapeAsBackstory: Nancy reveals to her nephew Webster that she was once raped years before in Portugal while covering a story.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Though people often use "German" and "Nazi" interchangeably, the series itself has many German characters who aren't Nazis. For instance most prominently is the Rossler family (technically Mr. Rossler is a Party member, but only to protect them with the influence it brings) who oppose the Nazis' (at least in part because their daughter has epilepsy and is at risk for involuntary "euthanasia", but they're revealed to have made a number of dissident comments later). Sieber, a German officer in the occupation of Paris, is also sympathetic. He shows veiled dislike at of the Nazi policy on jazz music, and helps Webster when Albert is detained (it's also indicated Sieber knows they're gay, but doesn't share the Nazi's vicious anti-LGBT views).
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The cast are so spread out across Europe that when they come into contact it can feel contrived. Examples include: [[spoiler:Kasia and Harry finding each other in Poland, and Grzegorz and Tom both being at Dunkirk.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The cast are so spread out across Europe that when they come into contact it can feel contrived. Examples include: [[spoiler:Kasia and Harry finding each other in Poland, and Albert's coworker Eddie being the sweetheart of Lois's coworker Connie, Grzegorz and Tom both being at Dunkirk.Dunkirk, and Webster treating Tom at the hospital in Paris.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: Sieber, the German officer, comes in to the nightclub where Albert is playing sax. He shoots what looks like a KubrickStare at the end of the performance--then smiles and applauds. Turns out that he's both a jazz fan and a pretty nice guy.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: The TropeMaker has just barely happened and this idea has already lodged in the English consciousness, as a bed-ridden Tom in episode 1-6 says he won't surrender "like you lot". Webster notes pointedly that it was a French ambulance that brought him back from the beaches of Dunkirk.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Though people often use "German" and "Nazi" interchangeably, the series itself has many German characters who aren't Nazis. For instance most prominently is the Rossler family (technically Mr. Rossler is a Party member, but only to protect them with the influence it brings) who oppose the Nazis' (at least in part because their daughter has epilepsy and is at risk for involuntary "euthanasia", but they're revealed to have made a number of dissident comments later). Sieber, a German officer in the occupation of Paris, is also sympathetic. He shows veiled dislike at the Nazi policy on jazz music, and helps Webster when Albert is detained (it's also indicated Sieber knows they're gay, but doesn't share the Nazi's vicious anti-LGBT views).
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* GiveTheBabyAFather: Vernon offers to do this with [[spoiler:Lois's baby]].
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* GiveTheBabyAFather: Vernon offers to do this with [[spoiler:Lois's baby]].Lois's baby.
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* HoneyTrap: Kasia does this to Nazi soldiers. She flirts with them to get them alone, allowing Tomasz to shoot them.
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* HoneyTrap: Kasia does this to Nazi German soldiers. She flirts with them to get them alone, allowing Tomasz to shoot them.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Henriette is attracted to Webster, and kisses him in a moment of passion. She seems aware that he's gay though, pulling away and then apologizing.
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** The Gestapo agent interrogating Mrs. Rossler's shows no compunction at hitting or mistreating her.
** Mr. Rossler unhesitatingly kills a Nazi woman who threatened to out his daughter for being disabled, which might have got her killed. Given that, it's understandable.
** The Gestapo agent interrogating Mrs. Rossler's shows no compunction at hitting or mistreating her.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** A rather jaw-dropping instance of this in episode 1-4, when Grzegorz runs into a British tank unit. In Poland, in 1940.
** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in the next episode he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
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** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in the next episode he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
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**ArtisticLicenseHistory: A rather jaw-dropping instance of this in episode 1-4, when Grzegorz runs into a British tank unit. In Poland, in 1940.
**1940. Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in the next episode he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
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** A rather jaw-dropping instance of this in episode 4, when Grzegorz runs into a British tank unit. In Poland, in 1940.
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** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in the next episode5 he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in the next episode
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** A rather jaw-dropping instance of this in episode 4, when Grzegorz runs into a British tank unit. In Poland, in1940.1940.
** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in episode 5 he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
** A rather jaw-dropping instance of this in episode 4, when Grzegorz runs into a British tank unit. In Poland, in
** Or it may be that Grzegorz runs into the tanks in Belgium. Because in episode 5 he has somehow teleported or [[Literature/HarryPotter Apparated]] hundreds of miles, across Germany, to wind up on the beaches of Dunkirk.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The fifth episode ends without revealing the fate of Tom and Gregorz, caught out in the open on the Dunkirk beach during a Stuka bombing run.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When the hardcore Nazi woman in Herr Rossler's factory makes a threat about his epileptic daughter, Rossler bashes her skull in with an iron. Then he's shown taking a stiff drink before going to Nancy for help disposing the body.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: After Harry gives Stan a direct order to head for the Dunkirk beach in episode 1-5, Stan says "Pleasure and an honor, sir" before departing.
* OminousFog: Episode 1-5 begins with Harry and his men emerging from thick fog on a lonely road somewhere near the coast. Their route is often fog-bound as they make the dangerous trek to Dunkirk on foot.
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* PublicExecution: In retaliation for Kasia's killing an SS soldier, twenty some Police Polish civilians are shot by a German firing squad publicly.
* ShellShockedVeteran:
** Douglas, who still suffers from "nerves" from the trauma he suffered in World War I.
** On the way to the Dunkirk beach Harry and his squad find a hospital truck transporting shell shock cases, or rather it was, before the driver was killed in a Luftwaffe strafing run. Stan doesn't believe in shell shock as an idea--he calls it "cowardice"--but much to Stan's consternation Harry insists on escorting the men to the beach.
** Douglas, who still suffers from "nerves" from the trauma he suffered in World War I.
** On the way to the Dunkirk beach Harry and his squad find a hospital truck transporting shell shock cases, or rather it was, before the driver was killed in a Luftwaffe strafing run. Stan doesn't believe in shell shock as an idea--he calls it "cowardice"--but much to Stan's consternation Harry insists on escorting the men to the beach.
* StukaScream: Heard multiple times as the Luftwaffe bombs and strafes the desperate soldiers and civilians on the way to Dunkirk, as well as the British troops stuck on the beach.
* TimePassesMontage: A whole montage has Kasia in alleyways necking with German soldiers, followed by {{Click Hello}}s from Tomasz, followed by Kasia walking away and lighting up a cigarette as Tomasz shoots the German. The last time it's subverted, when Tomasz's gun misfires, and Kasia has to pull out her own gun to shoot the German.
* TimePassesMontage: A whole montage has Kasia in alleyways necking with German soldiers, followed by {{Click Hello}}s from Tomasz, followed by Kasia walking away and lighting up a cigarette as Tomasz shoots the German. The last time it's subverted, when Tomasz's gun misfires, and Kasia has to pull out her own gun to shoot the German.
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* SneezeOfDoom: It's not clear whether Grzegorz has TB or is just asthmatic, but either way he can't stop coughing. His cough at the worst possible time results in a German soldier finding the place where he and his buddy are hiding. They manage to escape again later.
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* KidsAreCruel: All the stupid kids in Jan's new school gang up on him and scream "German! German!"
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* ActualPacifist: Douglas Bennett is a ShellShockedVeteran from the First World War and is a committed pacifist; he is involved in publishing newspapers and leaflets about pacificism.
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* GiveTheBabyAFather: Vernon offers to do this with [[spoiler:Lois's baby]]
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* InterclassRomance: Upper-middle class Harry and [[YourCheatingHeart both]] his love interests: Lois is a factory worker as well as a [[TheChanteuse nightclub singer]] and Kasia is a waitress.
* IntrepidReporter: Nancy Campbell, an American who reports on the outbreak of the war. She is based on [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed real life]] journalist Clare Hollingsworth who is credited with the first international report of the German invasion of Poland.
* IntrepidReporter: Nancy Campbell, an American who reports on the outbreak of the war. She is based on [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed real life]] journalist Clare Hollingsworth who is credited with the first international report of the German invasion of Poland.
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* InterclassRomance: Upper-middle class Harry and [[YourCheatingHeart both]] his love interests: Lois is a factory worker as well as a [[TheChanteuse nightclub singer]] singer]], and Kasia is a waitress.
* IntrepidReporter: Nancy Campbell, an American who reports on the outbreak of the war. She is based on [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed real life]] journalist ClareHollingsworth Hollingsworth, who is credited with the first international report of the German invasion of Poland.
* IntrepidReporter: Nancy Campbell, an American who reports on the outbreak of the war. She is based on [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed real life]] journalist Clare
* StraightGay: Webster and Albert, who are both indistinguishable from most straight men in how they act. Of course, given the homophobic period, they would be stupid ''not'' to act this way (at least publicly).
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''World on Fire'' is a 2019 Creator/{{BBC}} television series set across Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.
ItUsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo. The first season chronicles the first year of World War II, starting with the German invasion of Poland and continuing through the aftermath of the fall of France in June 1940. A second season has been announced.
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player named Albert.
* MatchCut: In episode 1-2, Kasia crumples down to the floor and embraces the corpse of her mother, shot through the forehead. Cut to Webster and Albert, spooning in bed.
* MolotovCocktail: The Poles of Warsaw, with few weapons, use these against German tanks.
* MolotovCocktail: The Poles of Warsaw, with few weapons, use these against German tanks.
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* SpitefulSpit: In episode 1-2 Kasia's mother spits at the German officer who has just entered her house. This gets her shot through the head. Later in that same episode Kasia is spitting in the soup that she's serving to German officers at the cafe.
* SpottingTheThread: Harry tells Lois about the family he stayed with in Warsaw, naming everyone in the family except Jan's big sister, whom he only calls "the sister". Lois immediately realizes that Harry fell in love with someone else in Poland.
* ToughLove: Robina was a rather cold and stand-offish parent to Harry. When he brings little Jan to the mansion she says straight-up that she has no maternal instincts at all.
* SpottingTheThread: Harry tells Lois about the family he stayed with in Warsaw, naming everyone in the family except Jan's big sister, whom he only calls "the sister". Lois immediately realizes that Harry fell in love with someone else in Poland.
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--> '''Nancy:''' You know what the Poles have got? Bicycles. You know what the Germans have got? Tanks! Panzers. I reported on David versus Goliath in Spain, it didn't turn out like it did in the Bible.
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--> '''Nancy:''' You know what the Poles have got? Bicycles. You know what the Germans have got? Tanks! Panzers. I reported on David versus Goliath in Spain, [[UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar it didn't turn out like it did in the Bible.Bible]].
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* Harry Chase, a rich boy whose snooty mother Robina (Creator/LesleyManville) disapproves. Harry is sent to Warsaw to work as a translator in the
* Kasia Tomaszeski, a waitress. Her father Stefan and
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* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: Lois and Tom snipe at each other about her romance with an aristocrat, while their father tries to be conciliatory. In the background, Neville Chamberlain's September 3, 1939 war message to the nation plays on the radio. As both the radio address and the conversation peter out, Tom offhandedly says "War's on, then."
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: In Warsaw, the Germans execute civilians for resistance activity with little or no evidence and in the first episode [[spoiler:Stefan is shot dead whilst holding up a white flag in surrender.]]
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* WartimeWedding: Harry and Kasia get married in Warsaw, so she [[CitizenshipMarriage can leave with him for England]], and avoid getting caught up in the imminent German invasion of Poland.
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* WartimeWedding: Harry and Kasia get married in Warsaw, so she [[CitizenshipMarriage can leave with him for England]], and avoid getting caught up in the imminent German invasion of Poland. [[HeroicSacrifice She sends her little brother with him instead.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mrs. Rossler realizes that Hilda will be taken away and killed by the Nazi euthanasia program no matter what she does, so she tragically decides to kill her daughter herself, followed by taking her own life shortly afterwards.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Mrs. Rossler realizes that Hilda will be taken away and killed by the Nazi euthanasia program no matter what she does, so she tragically decides to kill her daughter herself, followed by taking her own life shortly afterwards.]]
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* FourthDateMarriage: Lois agrees to marry Vernon the pilot after having met him a total of three or four times. Possibly a defied trope as she mainly marries him to get security for herself and her newborn baby during the war, and Vernon tells her she doesn't have to love him, but he's smitten with her and wants to provide for her.
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* DavidVersusGoliath: The first episode features the RealLife example of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Polish_Post_Office_in_Danzig Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig]] (now Gdansk). This trope is also name dropped when Nancy Campbell comments on the inequality between the German Army and the Polish Army:
--> '''Nancy:''' You know what the Poles have got? Bicycles. You know what the Germans have got? Tanks! Panzers. I reported on David versus Goliath in Spain, it didn't turn out like it did in the Bible.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: There are several simultaneous storylines: Nancy Campbell and the Rosslers in Berlin, Kasia and Tomasz in Warsaw, Grzegorz and Konrad on the run in Poland, Tom in the Navy, Jan, Douglas and Robina in Manchester, Albert and Webster in Paris, Harry and his regiment in Belgium and the Lois/Harry/Kasia love triangle.
--> '''Nancy:''' You know what the Poles have got? Bicycles. You know what the Germans have got? Tanks! Panzers. I reported on David versus Goliath in Spain, it didn't turn out like it did in the Bible.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: There are several simultaneous storylines: Nancy Campbell and the Rosslers in Berlin, Kasia and Tomasz in Warsaw, Grzegorz and Konrad on the run in Poland, Tom in the Navy, Jan, Douglas and Robina in Manchester, Albert and Webster in Paris, Harry and his regiment in Belgium and the Lois/Harry/Kasia love triangle.
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* InterclassRomance: Upper-middle class Harry and [[YourCheatingHeart both]] his love interests: Lois is a factory worker as well as a [[TheChanteuse nightclub singer]] and Kasia is a waitress.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: In Warsaw, the Germans execute civilians for resistance activity with little or no evidence and in the first episode [[spoiler:Stefan is shot dead whilst holding up a white flag in surrender.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: The characters are connected in enough ways to link [[FourLinesAllWaiting all the storylines]] despite the distances between the various settings.
* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Mrs Rossler kills Hilda and then herself.]]
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Stefan, the father of Kasia and Grzegorz, appears to be shaping up as a main character but he is shot dead in Danzig]] in the first episode.
* ToughLove: Robina was a rather cold and stand-offish parent to Harry.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: The characters are connected in enough ways to link [[FourLinesAllWaiting all the storylines]] despite the distances between the various settings.
* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Mrs Rossler kills Hilda and then herself.]]
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Stefan, the father of Kasia and Grzegorz, appears to be shaping up as a main character but he is shot dead in Danzig]] in the first episode.
* ToughLove: Robina was a rather cold and stand-offish parent to Harry.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The cast are so spread out across Europe that when they come into contact it can feel contrived. Examples include: [[spoiler:Kasia and Harry finding eachother in Poland, and Grzegorz and Tom both being at Dunkirk.]]
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* GlamorousWartimeSinger: Lois Bennett and her best friend Connie Knight are in the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), singing to entertain the British armed forces.
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* IntrepidReporter: Nancy Campbell, an American who reports on the outbreak of the war. She is based on [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed real life]] journalist Clare Hollingsworth who is credited with the first international report of the German invasion of Poland.
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''World on Fire'' is a 2019 Creator/{{BBC}} television series set across Europe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.
Amongst the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large ensemble cast]] are characters played by Creator/SeanBean, Creator/LesleyManville and Creator/HelenHunt.
!!Tropes
* ActualPacifist: Douglas Bennett is a ShellShockedVeteran from the First World War and is a committed pacifist; he is involved in publishing newspapers and leaflets about pacificism.
* BilingualDialogue: The series features dialogue in English, Polish, French and German.
* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia in the final episode of series 1.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Connie to Lois.
* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: The first series ends with [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia's attempt to leave Poland with the Resistance rumbled. The resistance cell are massacred, and Harry and Kasia are fleeing up a hill surrounded, outgunned and outnumbered.]]
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Upper middle class officer Harry and working class sergeant Stan.
* GiveTheBabyAFather: Vernon offers to do this with [[spoiler:Lois's baby]]
* HoneyTrap: Kasia does this to Nazi soldiers. She flirts with them to get them alone, allowing Tomasz to shoot them.
* LaResistance: Kasia and Tomasz join the Polish Resistance.
* LoveTriangle: Between Harry, Lois, and Kasia.
* WartimeWedding: Harry and Kasia get married in Warsaw, so she [[CitizenshipMarriage can leave with him for England]], and avoid getting caught up in the imminent German invasion of Poland.
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Amongst the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large ensemble cast]] are characters played by Creator/SeanBean, Creator/LesleyManville and Creator/HelenHunt.
!!Tropes
* ActualPacifist: Douglas Bennett is a ShellShockedVeteran from the First World War and is a committed pacifist; he is involved in publishing newspapers and leaflets about pacificism.
* BilingualDialogue: The series features dialogue in English, Polish, French and German.
* BigDamnReunion: [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia in the final episode of series 1.]]
* BlackBestFriend: Connie to Lois.
* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: The first series ends with [[spoiler:Harry and Kasia's attempt to leave Poland with the Resistance rumbled. The resistance cell are massacred, and Harry and Kasia are fleeing up a hill surrounded, outgunned and outnumbered.]]
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Upper middle class officer Harry and working class sergeant Stan.
* GiveTheBabyAFather: Vernon offers to do this with [[spoiler:Lois's baby]]
* HoneyTrap: Kasia does this to Nazi soldiers. She flirts with them to get them alone, allowing Tomasz to shoot them.
* LaResistance: Kasia and Tomasz join the Polish Resistance.
* LoveTriangle: Between Harry, Lois, and Kasia.
* WartimeWedding: Harry and Kasia get married in Warsaw, so she [[CitizenshipMarriage can leave with him for England]], and avoid getting caught up in the imminent German invasion of Poland.
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