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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

**DREAM COUNT the searing exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**From the best..

Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

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As Hitler’s bombs threatened London during World War Two eight-year-old David Merron was removed f..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..