King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods or so many..

Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repell..

Only a generation or two ago illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a..

Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

On 3 May 1961 after a trial conducted largely in secret a man named George Blake was sentenced to an..

It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive home in Manchester after five years ..

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Drawing on brand new interviews with astronauts and engineers archive material and newly declassifie..

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But h..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..