Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place.
Patricia Davies worked as a secreta
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19
After HMS Sheffield was hit during the Falklands War, morale onboard HMS Coventry was down...but only for a bit! Coventry and her crew started preparing for further attacks.
Here David Wood who serve
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is from Prague. She came to England in 1939 as one of nearly 700 Jewish children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who earned the nickname 'Britain
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm