Tells the stories of those families powerful enough to have shaped British history during the past millennium. The Churchills, the Cavendishes and the Norfolks are represented, as well as several Scots and Irish clans, through to the "media barons" of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...