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For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

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Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer’s s..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

In this wickedly funny sequel to MI5 and Me it is the 1950s and reluctant typist and spy's daughter ..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside ..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..