Responsible for daring assignments like Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was given a mission to ...

WWII British Women's Uniforms by Martin Brayley and Richard Ingram (Windrow and Green,1995) Put That Light Out by Mike Brown (Sutton,1999) ... WW2. British History Timeline.

Over 150,000 British, US and Canadian soldiers had landed by air and sea and pushed their way several miles inland. But what if the invasion hadn't gone to plan? Children of World War Two ...

If WW3 was to break out it is possible women could be conscripted to help serve the country, and as tensions rise across the ...

As a pilot with the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) between 1940 and 1945, Ms Curtis was said to have flown "13 days on, two days off" for 62 consecutive months, in a range of aircraft.

As the world marks 75 years since surrender of Nazi Germany, these are the stories of women such as the spy princess, the White Mouse and Soviet sniper Lady Death. Cheng Benhua: Resistance leader ...

Rising tensions could see the UK need to introduce conscription. In WW2, conscription began for men aged between 20 to 22 in ...

At the outbreak of World War I, British women had tried and failed to push through suffrage legislation almost 20 times. Women had been utterly excluded from all the major reform bills of the ...