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In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

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On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

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Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

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In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

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

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..