Sixty years after the prisoner of war jail Colditz was liberated by US troops, former inmates are returning to Germany to mark the anniversary. Captain Tommy Catlow and Lieutenant Kenneth Lee will ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...

For their Nazi captors they were troublemakers, but the three British veterans who returned to the Colditz high-security prison yesterday were honoured guests as the 60th anniversary of its liberation ...

Three things distinguish Airey Neave from a run-of-the-mill Conservative MP – his audacious escape during the Second World War from Colditz Castle; his direction of the campaign to replace Edward ...