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Amazing Plot To Kill Himmler Revealed in The Hornet' Sting

Mark Ryan's new book uncovers exploits of WWII spy

Heinrich Himmler

Mark Ryan's new book The Hornet's Sting reveals the amazing exploits of Second World War spy Tommy Sneum.

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BBC Traces Life of Vera Brittain on Remembrance Sunday

Jo Brand presents 'A Woman in Love and War'

Vera Brittain

BBC One is marking the 90th anniversary of the Armistice with a drama-documentary about Vera Brittain, presented by Jo Brand.

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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Tom Holland

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the...

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Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

Roy and Lesley Adkins

The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond...

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The Hornet's Sting: The untold story of Britain's Second World War spy Thomas Sneum

The Hornet's Sting: The untold story of Britain's Second World War spy Thomas Sneum

Mark Ryan

The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born spy who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. But until now, the full extraordinary story of Sneum’s action-packed career as a...

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The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia

Tim Tzouliadis

Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and...

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