In 1859 an American farmer shot a British pig rooting in his potato patch. Within weeks, hundreds of soldiers, a fleet of warships, and 2,000 sailors faced off on a foggy little island – and the only casualty was the pig.
In the freezing early hours of an Australian winter morning in 1944, more than a thousand Japanese prisoners rushed the fences of a POW camp armed with baseball bats and sharpened cutlery. It became the largest prison break of the Second World War.
In April 1944, weeks before D-Day, a rehearsal on a quiet Devon beach turned into a slaughter. At least 749 American servicemen died in a single night — and for decades, almost no one was allowed to know.
