Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

Bombs were falling all over Britain. . .For one young Londoner in a children's home - Queenie Clapto..

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The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..

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In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau in 1909 women have worked at the heart of British s..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

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

It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal the Great Train Robbery the rise of teenage consumerism a..