Al Murray

Here's the clip we mentioned earlier. Hope you enjoy. But there's these absolutely incredible personal stories right in the heart of it. And I think this is what's so amazing about the Second World War. Yes, it's a titanic event and it's the tectonic plates of history colliding and all those sort of things, isn't it? But in it, there's the most amazing things that happen to individuals.

Here's the clip we mentioned earlier. Hope you enjoy. But there's these absolutely incredible personal stories right in the heart of it. And I think this is what's so amazing about the Second World War. Yes, it's a titanic event and it's the tectonic plates of history colliding and all those sort of things, isn't it? But in it, there's the most amazing things that happen to individuals.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Elena Kargan's story is absolutely incredible. So she's a 25-year-old interpreter attached to 3rd Shock Army. She's drafted as a music... She wants to go to the front. She's drafted as a munitions worker, then trained as a nurse. And this reminds me of the women of SOEs. Someone spots that she can speak German. Yeah, that's a really good point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Elena Kargan's story is absolutely incredible. So she's a 25-year-old interpreter attached to 3rd Shock Army. She's drafted as a music... She wants to go to the front. She's drafted as a munitions worker, then trained as a nurse. And this reminds me of the women of SOEs. Someone spots that she can speak German. Yeah, that's a really good point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Elena Kargan's story is absolutely incredible. So she's a 25-year-old interpreter attached to 3rd Shock Army. She's drafted as a music... She wants to go to the front. She's drafted as a munitions worker, then trained as a nurse. And this reminds me of the women of SOEs. Someone spots that she can speak German. Yeah, that's a really good point.

And she's been interrogating prisoners, looking at captured documents. You know, it's finally a work incredibly fulfilling.

And she's been interrogating prisoners, looking at captured documents. You know, it's finally a work incredibly fulfilling.

And she's been interrogating prisoners, looking at captured documents. You know, it's finally a work incredibly fulfilling.

You can't. Basically, she says, it was very difficult to find your way through the city, map reading, because the run out of Russian signs and the German ones have mostly disappeared along with the waltz.

You can't. Basically, she says, it was very difficult to find your way through the city, map reading, because the run out of Russian signs and the German ones have mostly disappeared along with the waltz.

You can't. Basically, she says, it was very difficult to find your way through the city, map reading, because the run out of Russian signs and the German ones have mostly disappeared along with the waltz.