Battling Jasvinder Sanghera was just 14 when her mum showed her a picture of the man she would wed. Two years later she ran away to escape the marriage.
Camp Bastion Hospital, which lies at the centre of the British military base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, is a world leader in trauma care.
She may be 95, but Doris Long isn't prepared for life to slow down just yet.
Royal Marine Sergeant Noel Connolly saved the lives of 30 of his comrades when he prevented a Taliban suicide bomber from detonating154lb of explosives.
Being diagnosed with breast cancer at just 23 is a devastating blow.
In the battlefields of Afghanistan, the specialist Medical Emergency Response Team risk their lives every day by flying missions in the hotbed of terrorist activity.