On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

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In The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble tells the history of the jigsaw a uniquely British for..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..