
A Line In The River
In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 198...
View full detailsIn 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 198...
View full detailsOne December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddi...
View full detailsYou know about MI5. You know about MI6. Now uncover the mystery behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised h...
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View full detailsAt the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in c...
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View full detailsOne April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train ...
View full detailsSingapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blendi...
View full detailsIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. ...
View full detailsWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been told. In the early...
View full detailsOn a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissione...
View full detailsBetween 1975 and 1979 the seemingly peaceful nation of Cambodia succumbed to one of the most bloodthirsty revolutions in modern history. Nearly two...
View full detailsSaville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the ...
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