Britain at War August 2020

DAME VERA LYNN 1917-2020
•Why the BBC thought Forces’ Sweetheart was bad for morale
• The British traitor who helped her wartime rival
• In harm’s way: entertaining the troops then and now

A RUM DEAL?
Why the Navy killed the daily ration

HIMMLER
How Nazi bureaucracy and an eagle-eyed British soldier sealed his fate

VJ DAY: 75 YEARS ON
• Death Railway POWs on liberation from ‘hell’
• The 100-day countdown to the final surrender