Wilfrid Israel used his Berlin department store as cover for smuggling thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain.

The fate of the British army hung by a thread in May 1940, but ships large and small, military and civilian, came to the rescue.

Howard gave his life to saving the ‘great gifts and strange inconsistencies’ of Britain’s unique democracy.

In a Christmas broadcast in 1940, actor Leslie Howard explained why British sovereignty was worth fighting for.

‘D-Day’ on 6th June, 1944, kicked off the Allied invasion of Europe and raised hopes of an end to the Second World War.

The mayor and bishop of Zakynthos went to extraordinary lengths to protect the most vulnerable people of their island.