This collection of stories is the perfect introduction to events that shaped the twentieth century - packed with fighting facts and black-and-white photographs, it is an essential accompaniment to the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day.

Find out how. . .

The 250,000 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy fared against the waiting German army.

Britain's best fighter pilots stopped the sinister V1 flying bombs from blasting London.

A female secret agent avoided capture by the Gestapo after parachuting into occupied France.

A Lancaster bomber damaged in the air over Berlin defeated the odds and made it home to Britain.