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

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In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

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

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

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

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The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..