The director who snubbed the nazis

An idyllic neighbourhood on the edge of Berlin was once home to elite Nazis who carried out some of the worst crimes of the era. Eighty years on, the families that live there are still grappling with its tangled legacy. Sally McGrane reports

ALFRED HITCHCOCK was already a director on the rise when he found himself reading Scottish author John Buchan’s 1915 spy novel “The 39 Steps”. Thrillers such as “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Waltze

The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

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● HISTORY IS FULL OF “WHAT-IFS?”, perhaps nowhere ...

This fantastic plan, which led the then Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS), Air Vice-Marshal Arthur T Harris, to remark ‘the story, that appears too fantastic for words, might have a fortunate outco