Britains WarAs compelling on the major military events as he is on the experience of ordinary people living through exceptional times, Daniel Todman suffuses his extraordinary book with a vivid sense of a struggle which left nobody unchanged and explores why, despite terror, separation and deprivation, Britons were overwhelmingly willing to pay the price of victory. This volume begins with the coronation of George VI and ends with the disasters in the Far East in

One of the great love stories of modern times

Her identity has been cleverly erased but the method of her death is very specific: she has been killed in the manner of traitors to the Resistance in World War Two

From navigating air and train travel to how to approach unfamiliar meals

Novelist Xiaolu Guo writes the extraordinary story of her childhood in rural China

And what will happen if he can't

A wide-spread selection of explorers from young to old

Emily shared the lively chaos with her beloved older sister Rachael

The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia

Millward highlights unusual but important biological

But their real worry is their son

These animals help us to remember that not all heroes are human

She's also been called a stain on society