FEARLESS ON EVEREST: THE QUEST FOR SANDY IRVINE

JAMBUSTERS

The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. With all the vigour, energy and enthusiasm at their disposal, a third of a million country women set out to make their lives and the lives of those around them more bearable in what they described as 'a period of insanity'.

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.