A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.

Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens took his wartime protest straight to the top.

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

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.