Soldier, hero, prisoner, spy

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the interview with British photojournalist George Rodger, followed by selected extracts from the recorded encounter

To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

The year was 1987. The Soviet Union, under leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was approaching its final chapters. As if to catch the dying embers of the USSR, recently graduated pianist James Kirby left his li

Alsu Kurmasheva was jailed in a Russian prison on false charges. Separated from her family and with no end in sight, she turned to the one thing that kept her hope alive

Family history has always been an interest of mine, mainly because of my rare surname Zwalf. Until I was in my late teens, I had never met anyone with the same name. My father Joseph Zwalf was born in