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Their Finest Hour
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Sidney Arnold Morse's Service on H.M.H.S. Oxfordshire
Dear Dorothy
Bermondsey to Berlin and back as I remember it
Hunter to Hunted, Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs' (Diaries of a merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45) by Alex Anderson
ATS photos and documents
Ivor Gray Nixon - Experience in World War II
Wartime service of Frank Moth and his brothers
Story of David John Lloyd, RAMC
Grandad's Flight Log
Reminiscences of a Soldier - Stan Dakin
"No Ordinary War, 1939-1945". A Soldier and the wife he left behind
Stories of love, courage and escape; Norway, England and Burma.
WWII Japanese POW - Captain Allan Auckland's Account
Japanese POW
Alan Edmund Drury in the AFS and REME
Memories of Alan Vann
Frederick Harvey's service in WW2
Memories of Clapham Bombing - Jack Stevens' War Memoirs
Charles Wilson's recollections of his time as a POW in Burma
The Wartime Memories of Sergeant Alan Moger
Bill Gibson - "A Tour of My Life in the Royal Air Force 1942 - 1945"
Roelof Vlietstra: 'Engelandvaarder' (England paddler)
Norman and Ivy (Bunty) Wakelin's History
Roy Beltries Sparkes CPO Chief Engineer Minesweepers
War record of Lt Geoffrey N Lugg - D-Day Landing
Mementoes of William Elwyn Jones, 4197812, Royal Welch Fusiliers
The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald
My father's memoir
Memories of a POW
"What Did You Do in The War Daddy?" A detailed account of D-Day and its aftermath.
Memories of Elsie Vann
She had a lovely war
The North African Deployment of Don Peckham
My Father, Walenty Krawczyk
My experience as a Prisoner of War in Germany, 1943-1945
George Hendrie Kirk's Story 1939 - 1946
Breaking Gerald's Silence: Far East POW
Harold S. Doling: Five Years a POW
Wren Mary Heyland's Wartime Memories
How a German Jewish teenage refugee became a very British woman
Marcel Crespin WW2 POW survivor
Three Uniforms, One Flag
World War Two - A WAAF Comes of Age
Captain Danuta Lechna's wartime journey
Stephen M. Moravick: WWII History
Memories of the War - Gladys Eveleigh
William (Bill) Wright, from Ibstock, Leicestershire.
Francois van Brock
My family's life as refugees from Jersey in Surrey
Bonjour bébé - Marion Bloom's Wartime Memoirs
Childhood memories of fleeing to England from Vienna
Wartime Memories of a Coventry Kid
L.A.C Betty L. Sherwood, WAAF
Memories of a Queen Alexandra nurse
My Great Grandad's War Adventures
Crystal bowl that has travelled the world
Call up for Service - Irene C. Bastendorff - SOE/FANY
Martin Hunt: From Bruntingthorpe to Stalag 20a Thorn
Gunner Daniel Simpson's Second World War Exploits 1939-1945
Life Depends on a Silken Thread: F/Sgt Larry Goheen's jump from a burning Halifax
Pam's wartime memories from Guernsey
John Charles Harvey's service in WW2
From Cairo to Kokstad: Ann Stephens and Priscilla Weld
Photo Album of Joy Dugdale during the War
Myfanwy Avril James's Experiences as a Wren
Christine Charlwood's escape from Singapore - 13 February 1942
A journey through Finland, Poland and Austria in WW2
The Dunn Family deported from Jersey to Germany. Life in Wurzach internment camp
Memories of my great-grandfather's time as Polish soldier and POW
A Small Boy's Life in Wartime
Memories of 1939-1945 by an elderly small boy
Betty and Franz Hausner's Stories as 'Enemy Aliens'
Experiences of Pauline Shergold and Riek Merkens her Dutch pen-friend
Memories of Marjorie Sinclair, latterly Mrs Black and formerly Mrs Quigg
Hickton Family War Service
Sidney Eccles's Wartime Service
Memories of War in Holland
My War Years in Lymington
What my father did in the Second World War
The story of Kathy and Charlie: how the Second World War changed the lives of two disabled people
D-Day Experiences: A French Girl's Courage and a Soldier's Duty
Childhood Memories of Wartime Oxfordshire Village
Norman Hopkins talks to Derek Knee about the surrender signing in Germany, May 1945
Warrant Officer Frederick Mahoney 976750
Memories of the War - Isabella Smith
Margaret Simpson's Childhood in Wartime Birmingham
A recollection of the Norwich blitz
WWII Memories of Jacqueline Bond: Life in Maidenhead
Tom Wilson's Wooden Horse Violin
Marine Diary - Serving in the Far East
A Wartime Injury and its Aftermath, and a Midlands Family's War
Story 1: No tank you. Story 2: Oh Happy Day
The Lintonaires: Musical Memories from RAF Service
Jean Brodie's very good war!
British Troops in African Desert Painting, 1942
Memory of an Unusual Celebration of VE Day
Memories of my grandfather Alexander Fyfe Hastie
Youngest Boy Soldier to Win George Medal
Walter Handley: Memories of 14th November 1940 Coventry Blitz
Coffee, Croque-monsieurs and a Juliette balcony: How my British step-grandmother helped the French resistance to liberate Paris in August 1944