JACK HIGGINS’ SEMINAL NOVEL WAS PUBLISHED FIVE DECADES AGO THIS MONTH, BUT WAS THE NAZI PLAN TO KIDNAP OR ASSASSINATE THE ‘BIG THREE’ IN TEHRAN GENUINE, OR AN ELABORATE SOVIET FICTION?

On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t

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In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

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On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical