Category: Wartime Stories
Category: Wartime Stories

Finding Graham
The year is 1936. The Dutta family from Sylhet ( then undivided India, now part of Bangladesh ) were proud ...

Fight, My Beloved Country
Call it a woman’s intuition, but for a week I had been fearful that something was about to happen. I ...

500 + Jolly :The great escape
My 71-year-old grandmother had to come to terms with the reality that she would have to leave her home and ...

A joyous day and some poignant memories
9th May, the Victory Day, is celebrated on a grand scale in Russia. The document ending the Second World War, ...

The Life and Times of Vassily K
Sergei K. in conversation with Tapti Roy Thinking about the life and destiny of my dear Grandfather Vassily, I have ...

Adventures of An Able Seaman
I joined the British Navy at the age of 17 in 1944. I had lived with my parents in Markyate, ...

Of War and Peace: Bangladesh in 1972
Excerpts from an account by an Indian civil servant deputed to oversee rehabilitation of evacuees and distribution of relief materials ...

Katrina: A Latvian Tale
My mother, Katrina was barely 10 when she was orphaned, her mother predeceasing her father by a few months. Born ...

Anonyma: A lady on the train
Anonyma: Eine Frau in Berlin (known in the UK as `The downfall of Berlin Anonyma`) is a 2008 German film ...

Evacuation from Ferozepur
It was August 1965. My family lived in the army cantonment of Ferozepur, Punjab, in northern India. I was 10 ...