Britain at War September 2020

BIGGIN’S BATTLE
• Spitfire ace John Ellis: Outnumbered 10-to-1 in combat
• How Hurricanes saved ‘the Hill’
• The farmer’s wife who captured a downed Nazi airman

JAMES HOLLAND Q & A
Operation Husky: Did the Mafia and the ‘man who never was’ help Allies invade Sicily?

ARMY OF GHOSTS
The D-Day radio operators who duped Nazi spies

TRENCH GRENADES
Why WWI soldiers turned jam tins and scrap into IEDs