Britain's position in 1940 was often described as 'alone' and 'weak'. Yet the reality was very different. Not only did Britain have powerful navy and RAF forces... the nation's Home Guard held thousands of men and women in secret roles ready to help fight against invasion. Historian Andrew Chatterton shares some of the incredible stories of derring-do.
An exploration of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16, in which Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey, intent on capturing Constantinople, but which resulted in one of the worst fighting fronts of the war.
Historian Clare Mulley talks to Julia Wheeler about the incredible story of the courageous resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka, also known as ‘Elizabeth Watson’ but more often as ‘Zo’ – the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-German occupied Poland during the Second World War.