the losses and the courage that determined the direction of the Second World War are the stories of men. And yet women were parachuting into occupied France and smuggling arms across the Polish ...

A 27-year-old nurse who died at sea while trying to save wounded men during World War Two is being commemorated in a new exhibition.Sister Mollie Evershed, from Soham, Cambridgeshire, is one of ten ...

II, and were the only ones allowed to take on a combatant role by the British Army. However, many of them have been forgotten ...

The first time I learned about a group of women who created propaganda aimed at Germany and Japan during World War II, I was intrigued. These four women – Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane ...

The biographer and journalist chooses her favourite works about women in war. Her latest book is "The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival", which is published this week. Caroline ...

The IBCC said each woman was chosen for representing courage and leadership during World War Two. "These women were chosen thanks to their bravery and resilience during the wartime efforts ...