VICTORIES, MYTHS, AND THE BERLIN BLOCKADE

Gunfire erupted just after first light. Police officers had hurled pebbles at the shuttered windows of 100 Sidney Street in London’s East End, aiming to rouse the men they knew were inside, and to ind

MILLICENT BRADFORD dithered about going down to Portsmouth on the train. It was cold, that January of 1942, and obviously there was a war on. Travelling about was frowned upon, unless one really had t

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

Around 15 years ago, together with two colleagues, I was compiling and translating an anthology that was eventually published as The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. We were eager to include previously

LESTER COHEN / GETTY Lazarus: The Second Coming ...