On May 8 1945, Peter Marshall, a 20-year old Wireless Operator on Lancaster bombers was on a training sortie. As they headed back to base, he was twiddling the controls of his radio set and came...

“Overconfidence is your weakness,” a calm male voice tells me between wailing sirens. “Seek shelter.” It’s 3am in Kyiv’s old town, and I’m being warned that an air strike is incoming....