Hitler’s first defeat

There are frozen lakes and glorious glaciers, but beneath the beauty, Simon Reeve discovers dark secrets, too...

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D

Our journey from the UK to Norway was trouble-free, stopping over at plain but pleasant park-ups in Holland, Germany (twice), and finally Denmark. Boarding the ferry in Hirtshals, Denmark, we were exc

ALONG NORWAY’S COASTLINE, THE RHYTHM OF LIFE SLOWS IN SUMMER — SHAPED BY THE GOOD WEATHER AND LONG HOURS OF DAYLIGHT

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On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying