Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Norfolk 1939. The residents of Great Plumstead agree to open up their homes to evacuees from London...

A.D. 57. Battle-scarred veterans of the Roman army Tribune Cato and Centurion Macro return to Rome. ..

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

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

Bella's new next-door neighbour is Magda. Magda is lots of fun and soon they are best friends. But M..

Pippin's just an ordinary little girl who lives with her ordinary granny in the ordinary town of Fun..

When Lilian finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egy..

The world's leading toy manufacturer gives each of its amazing toys a tiny computerized brain and a ..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

Spring has brought many new beginnings into the world of Persimmon ?Simmy? Brown. Not only has her b..