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Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

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In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career. By 19..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destine..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that ..

When fresh-faced newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne..