Hidden in the creaking hull of the hospital ship SS Amsterdam lay the groaning casualties of war. Bodies shredded by shrapnel, shot through with German bullets, even missing limbs, and dreaming ...

The Company left Faringdon on 14th January 1940 for Southampton and embarked on SS Amsterdam. From Le Havre. the journey continued by train, in wagons labelled "40 hommes ou 8 chevaux", to Caudebec-en ...

Only two British servicewomen lost their lives in the Normandy Landings – heroic nurses Dorothy Field and Mollie Evershed. This is their tragic story... THEY paid the ultimate price as they tried to ...