Witness History: World War Two history

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Britain's Land Girls

Around 80 thousand women and girls volunteered to join the Women's Land Army during the Second World War. They helped provide vital food supplies to a country under siege. Kirsty Reid has spoken to Mona McLeod who was just 17 years old when she started working 6 days a week on a farm in Scotland. Mona has written a book about her experiences: 'A Land Girl's Tale'. Photo: Land girls carrying bundles of straw in 1941. (Credit: Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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  The Chindits

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  Nagasaki bomb

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  World War Two’s Rome escape line

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  VE Day celebrations

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  The death of Adolf Hitler

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  Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

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  'I wrote Schindler's List'

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  The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

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  The Purple Heart Warriors

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  The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

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  Saving lives on D-Day

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  The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

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  The 'comfort women' of World War Two

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  The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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  French child evacuees of World War Two

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  The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis