Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

In a prisoner-of-war camp in western Ukraine, a former miner from the east is being interviewed about how he ended up fighting for Russia. His speech is slurred and one arm paralysed: the results not

AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

KARELIAN ISTHMUS 25 JUNE – 9 JULY 1944

Julián Casanova Franco 528pp. Crítica. €22.90. Giles Tremlett El Generalísimo Franco: Power, violence and the quest for greatness 528pp. Bloomsbury. £30. Juan Carlos I, with Laurence Debray Reconcilia