Second World War

The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odd...

1st Sergeant Arthur Bud Locke was based at Clark Field in the Philippines, as part of the USAAF's Far East Air Service Command, in 1941. He was tak...

A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts o...

Alun, Gweno and Freda is a radical reworking of John Pikouliss classic biography, Alun Lewis: A Life (Seren, 1984) with new material which sheds fu...

The summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britainthe darkestdays of World War II. France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands,Luxembourg and Norwa...

Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mothers and daughters separate persp...

Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britains Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The youn...

This engaging poem depicts Winston Churchill as a hero, in traditional epic style and echoes the works of Homer and Virgil. The metre adds an emoti...

In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would esta...

The real history of MI5 during the era of the Cold War, the IRA & international terrorism. 'PO Box 500, London W2'; the nondescript address fro...

Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstandi...

It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hill...