‘we could do things that the men couldn’t’

The story of four women who worked in wartime American intelligence

THE light was beginning to fade, and as Irene started to scratch her bare arms, she remembered anew one of the few things she disliked about being in the countryside. “The midges are out,” she complai

Beryl Nevell thought her service during the Second World War had been a case of ‘doing her duty’. Then someone special stepped in and showed her what she was truly owed…

An Oslo under German occupation must reckon with itself

A war surgeon’s struggles David Nott has spent ...

Why books that became beloved classics struggled to find their way into print