Martin Gropius Bau, venetian friezes, Gestapo HQ, Berlin Wall death strip (Clockwise from top left) My new novel, Fables & Lies: A World...

I’ve always been interested in untold stories of WW2, especially stories from overlooked outposts, such Shetland (The Lifeline). Although Th...

When war came, midwives delivered babies on shelters Credit Jennifer Ryan While researching health care in the 1940s for a novel, I found ma...

 by Deborah Swift In the last few weeks we have heard a lot on the news about WW2's 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden and Ar...

by Deborah Swift Harold Robin - WW2 Radio Engineer The Shadow Network which forms the title of my latest book refers to the fake news radio ...

My first neighbours were a couple in their eighties from Poland. As time went on, they told me stories of life in childhood, celebrations, f...

by Deborah Swift After the fall of France and Belgium, a new organisation was formed – the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to strengthen ...

Our June guest is Helen Peters. Helen Peters grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spen...

This month's guest is the best-selling author of the Masie Dobbs series of crime novels, Jacqueline Winspear. She was born and raised ...

My mother, aged 16 My mother was nine when the War broke out and like my father and his sister, she was never evacuated, though with my...