In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

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In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland which they share with Mavis ..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

The extraordinary true story of how one British woman was trapped in Eastern Europe for 50 years fir..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

For a young Mike Pannett growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream ..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

On the Slow Train is an unashamed tug at the heartstrings harking back to a time before Dr Beeching ..

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..