STRONG PERFORMANCES AND AN INGENIOUS USE OF LIMITED SPACE MAKE FOR A SPELLBINDING STAGE ADAPTATION OF LE CARRÉ’S CLASSIC

ARTEFACT OF WAR

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

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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Berlin ShuffleTranslated by Philip Boehm256pp. Pushkin. £18.99. The exhumation of Alexander Boschwitz (1915–42) is one of the more pleasing literary stories of recent times.

Is this the age of dictators?” asked veteran journalist Sir Sidney Low. He was writing in September 1923, the month in which a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in Spain. At the sa