The director who snubbed the nazis

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

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey (Granta, £16.99) ...

● 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

● ONE MORNING IN 2007 I KNOCKED at ...