War

In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the airmen who made it home alive.

Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today.

In 1956, Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a lesser-known Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan, explored the trauma and meaning of war – and prefigured current fantasy art.

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the BBC about the mission, and the Hollywood film it inspired.

The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was all thanks to a chance meeting with a luggage salesman.