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SPORTS
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MUSIC & ARTS
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HUMAN INTEREST
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'Last Night Another Soldier' "I've developed a sort of default mechanism now, so I try to think I'm watching it on a film. Deep down I know I'm not but how else am I supposed to get through the day when my son's in the thick of it in probably the most dangerous place on Earth." |
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The Mother of All Wars - Cheryl Nathan's Time in Iraq & Kuwait “When I was drafted, I was devasted. Every emotion went through my head, surely there was a mistake, I’d just have to tell them I couldn’t, I had my boy to bring up. I was scared, angry, resentful but ultimately, I just had to get on with it..." |
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From Normandy to India "I suppose it was something like the gates of hell, the blood the guts, the carnage, it was war close up and it wasn't glamorous. I must have carried hundreds of soldiers back to the LST's, I'll never know how many lived or died. It didn't matter whose side they were on, we lifted British, American, Poles, Canadian, Germans and Ukrainian..." |
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Polish Resistance- The Story of Jerzy Sopiaski ...from Biertow, a small town near Wroclow. Jerzy's mother was Jewish, which placed him in even more danger than other Poles when the German's and Soviet's carved up Poland in 1939. He had already served three years in the Polish Air Force and was evacuated first to Hungary and then to France. |
