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History's HeroesHistory's Secret Heroes - Series 4Episodes

    Kiyoshi Tanimoto and the Atomic Bomb

    6/11Why did a minister run towards Hiroshima immediately after the atomic bomb?

    Pamela Churchill’s Special Relationships

    5/11How did Pamela Churchill use the power of seduction to help the war effort?

    The Ovitz Family

    4/11How did a family of Jewish performers defy the odds and survive Auschwitz?

    Airey Neave: Escape from Colditz Castle

    3/11Locked in a Nazi prisoner of war camp, a British soldier is determined to escape.

    The Cockleshell Heroes

    2/11A marine’s madcap plan to attack German ships, using canoes.

    Elvira Chaudoir: D-Day’s Double Crossing Agent

    1/11Can a playgirl turned double agent deceive the Nazis?

    Trailer

    11/11Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.