Author and publisher Vicky Unwin joins James Holland to discuss her extraordinary family story. While researching her parents’ war time experiences Vicky unearthed an intriguing narrative which travelled from Egypt to Germany, including the secret of her father’s hidden Jewish

Chapter 13: The Cauldron, by Zeno In September, 1944, the British 1st Airborne Division found itself in a fierce battle for the Dutch city of Arnhem. Al Murray reads the story of a single platoon trapped in the smoking ruins

In 1942 Denis Barnham flew spitfires repeatedly against enemy raids over Malta. In this extract, Al Murray reads a terrifying account of his first air battle above the island. The whole book is available at patreon.com/wehaveways

Al Murray reads a chapter from Bomber written by Len Deighton. Bomber is a fictionalised account of “the events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943”