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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?

50 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION FROM PETER JAMES

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: NOVEMBER

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w