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Four months after flying to the Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain together with a large party of British officials travelled to Rome by train to try and keep the Italians from siding with the Germans.

On 8 September the Italian Armistice with the Allies came into effect. Substantial Italian forces remained outside of Italy. This is the story of what happened to the Italian garrison on Corfu between 8 and 27 September 1943.

26 Jul Meina is a small village on the Western side of Lake Maggiore, between Arona and Stresa, it is not a large resort , just a tranquil spot with lovely view up the lake towards Switzerland and across to Anghera. In the 1930s, there were just two hotels there, the Hotel Meina and the Hotel Verbano. The Hotel Meina was to become infamous as the site of a massacre.

David Roberts on the Peace Trail in the lovely Swiss city of Locarno

A short history of the Froth sites at Harpur Hill, near Buxton including the Frith artillery range; RAF Maintenance Unit 28 and Safety in Mines Research.

Following on from the story of Heinz Thannhauser, David Roberts uncovers the stories of two more German Jewish refugee pupils who attended Buxton College in the 1930s and later emigrated to the United States

David Roberts puts together the story of Heinz Thannhauser , a German-Jewish refugee who attended Buxton College in the 1930s, went to Harvard and died with the American Air Force in Italy in 1944

On Remembrance Day , David Roberts tries to find out more about the story of Ugandan Soldier Besueri Sebaiga

On Remembrance Day, David Roberts looks at the sacrifices made by the Old Boys of Holm Leigh Preparatory School in Buxton

David Roberts delves into the War Office records to tell the story of the killing of Private J E Law at Camp PG106 Vercelli

David Roberts revisits some scenes from O Level history on the Ligurian Riviera