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FEARLESS ON EVEREST: THE QUEST FOR SANDY IRVINE

The story of climber Sandy Irvine, and the mystery of whether he and George Mallory reached the summit of Everest in 1924. Using letters and photographs the author, Irvine's great niece, attempts to show that Irvine's determination to reach the summit, come what may, may have been their undoing.

OUR UNINVITED GUESTS

During the Second World War, thousands of houses were requisitioned to provide accommodation for the armed forces, vulnerable children, the sick and the elderly, who needed to be housed safely beyond the reach of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. Julie Summers gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of life in some of Britain’s greatest country houses that were occupied by people who would otherwise never have set foot in such opulent surroundings.

STRANGER IN THE HOUSE

From 1945, more than four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after the most destructive war in history. These men returned to a Britain that had changed in their absence. This is a fascinating account of the women who were on the receiving end of demobilisation and how war altered their lives forever.

WHEN THE CHILDREN CAME HOME: STORIES OF WARTIME EVACUEES

On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper began to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe, the largest mass evacuation of children in British history. Using interviews, written accounts and memoirs, Julie Summers tells us what happened when these children returned to their families, and explores how they coped both in the immediate aftermath of the war, and in later life.