In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

In Tudor England Mary Queen of Scots was under house arrest and her letters were censored so she sew..

How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? That was the heart-wrenching..

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

In 1621 fifty-seven women undertook a three-month journey to Jamestown after responding to an advert..

1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impass..

No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home; y..

September 1939. For years now Britain has been rudderless divided and grievously unequal. When war b..