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July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening

SNAPPY SCRIPTS I so agree with the praise ...

OPERATION OVERLORD HAD FAILED?

‘Plink’ – another sugar lump is precariously dropped into a little glass bowl. I’m aged about 10 and my grandfather is patiently and precisely teaching me how to use chopsticks. How he came to use the