But, sending women to the frontline in World War 2 was illegal - so they weren’t protected by the Geneva Convention and, if captured, would have none of the rights of prisoners of war.

I n a very BBC-like attempt at balance, Channel 4’s WW2: Women on the Frontline included a Nazi in its stories of female spies. Alongside the likes of Noor Inayat Khan, the British SOE agent ...

Women who played vital roles during World War Two are to be celebrated in an exhibition at the International Bomber Command Centre. Ten women have been chosen by the centre, in Lincoln, "to ...

Tenko followed the lives of British, Australian and Dutch women who were captured after the Japanese invasion and held in a fictional Japanese internment camp. Airing from 1981 to 1985 ...

While searching through some boxes, Sophie Parker rediscovered the precious leaf that had given her grandmother courage 80 years earlier as a spy captured during WW2 ... camp for women in northern ...