A Polish prisoner carefully checks there are no guards around before he enters one of the SS cloakrooms in Auschwitz. He takes out a hidden vial and quickly sprinkles its contents on the collars of those hated uniforms, before slipping out again. Within two weeks some of the Germans had come down with the typhoid that was wiping out so many of the prisoners.

IRISH soldiers who fought in D-Day are still haunted by memories of their friends and colleagues who died during Europe’s biggest ever conflict.

IN a country wracked by war and constant bloodshed the key city of Basra has been at the centre of all turmoil.

By Noel Whelan IN 1997 the former British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, now Lord Hurd, made a series of TV documentaries for the BBC called 'The Search for Peace.'