Undiscovered Heroes of the Second World War by Yasmin Khan

Undiscovered Heroes of the Second World War by Yasmin Khan

An important commemorative collection to mark the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, to ensure the world never forgets.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, the British empire covered one quarter of the earth's land surface and included one fifth of the world's population. People all around the British empire were caught up in the war in very different and unexpected ways, and had their lives completely changed, sometimes in ways that they could never have ever imagined.

Leading historian Professor Yasmin Khan tells the stories of some of those people, from tea pickers in India to a Māori army lieutenant serving on the front line, and from a Singaporean resistance fighter to the first Australian woman journalist to report on the D-Day landings in Dunkirk. Each account gives a voice to these incredibly brave unsung heroes, who deserve to be remembered for their courage and dedication to the Allied war effort.

Professor Yasmin Khan is University Lecturer in 18th to early 20th century British History at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD on the History of the British Empire from Oxford University and has taught at the Edinburgh University and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book, The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan, won the Gladstone Prize for History from the Royal Historical Society. Dr Khan has written for the New Statesman and Guardian and appeared on BBC radio and television, and is an editor of History Workshop Journal and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust.

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ISBN 13	9781444975512
ISBN 10	144497551X
Title	Undiscovered Heroes of the Second World War
Author	Yasmin Khan
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Publisher	Hachette Children's Group
Year published	2025-04-24
Number of pages	128
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