‘I escaped the Nazis then fixed Lancaster Bombers for the RAF.'

Jean Fullerton, policewoman and district nurse turned novelist on why there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Author Louisa Treger investigates the audacious woman who tricked her way into a brutal insane asylum to expose the truth

British booksellers in the Blitz

What it's like to be a prison librarian? Neil Barclay invites us into HMP Thameside library in London.

The mysterious photo that inspired a tale of secrets, loss and betrayal in wartime Cornwall.

Shattered cities. Donna Jones Alward on uncovering the WW1 explosion which devastated Nova Scotia

"I wrote 100 letters to my friend with cancer. It transformed our lives."

What happened after the Nazis left? New York Times bestselling author Jenny Le Coat on why liberation didn't equal freedom for Jersey islanders after WW2.

Meet the formidable, feisty, factory sisterhood who went on strike and made history.

“‘Forget that number and you don’t exist,’ the Kapo at Auschwitz told me.” 92-year-old Ivor Perl on surviving the horrors of the Holocaust.

Meet the fur coat gangsters: Notorious Victorian girl gang who hid stolen jewellery in knickerbockers, carried razors wrapped in lace handkerchiefs and used a hatpin to blind anyone who crossed them

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, veteran Mervyn Kersh shares his extraordinary experience of the Normandy landings and his role in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe: Reader, Bibliophile and Library Lover

The Women Who Ruled the East End: Remarkable Tales of Wartime London

85 years on from the end of the Spanish Civil War, author Maggie Brookes uncovers its hidden heroes. Plus the extraordinary war story she found in a lift!

99-year-old Holocaust survivor and US Army veteran George Leitmann on the emotional search for his father, the day he discovered a concentration camp and how he kept his cool interrogating Nazi war criminals.

Sent away by sea: the forgotten history of WWII’s ‘seaevacuees'. Meet the heroine at the heart of an astonishing survival story.

Meet the Sugar Girls of Love Lane. New social history book set in Tate & Lyle's Liverpool factory in the sixties offers a glimpse of a long vanished era.

Meet the wartime librarians of Occupied Paris. Bestselling author of The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles, on how reading gives us a privacy of the mind