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A Russia of trees and liberty and peace: ...

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

After covering the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, it was perhaps inevitable that Frank McDonough – one of the country’s foremost historians of the Third Reich – would turn his attention to the Holo

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

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