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Japan had entered the war confident that superior spiritual strength and discipline would prevail. By 1944, they were fighting for survival, crippled by shortages of food, metals and fuel. After massive defeats at Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, a continuous campaign of Allied...

Fiona Bruce presents from the Royal William Yard in Plymouth where finds include doorknobs said to have belonged to Lord Nelson, a psychedelic painting of a band that played at Woodstock and a diamond necklace the length of a skipping rope.

By pushing themselves and their bodies to the limit, mammals have found remarkable ways to survive in the hottest places on earth. In baking deserts, harsh dry spiny forests, barren desolate salt pans and even bush fires, mammals beat the heat.