Books By Izzy Charman - Author

Izzy Charman graduated from Bristol University with a first-class honours degree and the George Hare Leonard prize in history. She went on to work in factual documentary production as a writer, researcher, producer and director specializing in twentieth-century historical subjects. Career highlights have included working with Ken Loach on 'Spirit of '45', a documentary about the Atlee government; co-authoring a documentary about the men on the Wiesenthal Centre's 'Most Wanted' list with BAFTA award-winning director Charlie Russell; associate producing the BAFTA award-winning drama-documentary 'Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand; and writing and directing an acclaimed feature-length BBC documentary about Edward Heath and Harold Wilson. Izzy produced and co-wrote the television series Our Story which accompanies this book. She personally carried out all the original research for it, trawling archives, libraries, museums and homes across Britain for the most vivid first-hand accounts of the war years.