History's Secret Heroes

Supporting Content

• Raymond Gurême: The incredible story of a wartime escapologist

  Unique skills enabled a young man to escape captivity repeatedly, and return to the fray.

  

• Celebrated pilot, navigator and prisoner of war

  The incredible story of one of Britain’s first black airmen, Johnny Smythe.

  

• Surrey bank clerk turned MI5 Spy

  The extraordinary story of Eric Roberts.

  

• George Takei: Seven things we learned from History’s Secret Heroes

  George Takei speaks about the American Internment Camps.

  

• George Takei recalls his childhood in a WWII internment camp

  George Takei recalls when he was deported to an internment camp for Japanese Americans.