Heavily in debt and earning peanuts as a 'trolley dolly' Saskia Swann desperately needed to get her ..

After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939 airman Robert Bozdech stumble..

For a young Mike Pannett growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960's and early '70's was a drea..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidabl..

Dave Aston had been a soldier a member of the elite British SAS. Until that final mission into bandi..

They are the Pessarane Behesht. Sons of heaven. Spawned in war-torn Beirut. Nurtured in revolutionar..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..