The Second World War... such a long time ago yet even today it throws up stories which remind us of its human impact.
Below is a mini series of stories hooked around one element of the war - the devastating consequences it had on one group of foreigners living here.
The Italian community - hard working people who had come to Scotland with their flavours of home seeking a better life from the poverty of their own villages - were rounded up, kept prisoner and treated as if they were the enemy of the state.
Caught up in that were ordinary people, a little boy who never got to know his father and, in contrast to the Italian element, a woman who faced legal shame for refusing to do what was seen as her 'duty'.
Poignant and deeply personal tales that remind us that war's grim reach stretches well beyond the field of battle.
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