It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

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In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's parents are lost at sea she is forced to leave her London home a..

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In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover. Eve j..

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In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..