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On their radar: How Allies captured Hitler’s technology
If the history of war is your thing, this book will blow you out of the water
‘Give us a chance to change’
Although China remains a tyranny, since the 1970s it has become a significantly less brutal one. Li Datong, a journalist who was sacked last year as a magazine editor for…
We must punish binge-flying
Mark Ellingham has made a sizeable fortune from the creation of the Rough Guides to almost everywhere. He is shortlisted for the Royal Society’s prize for science writing, for…
Gangster rule triumphs
In Moscow shortly after 9/11 a clever Russian academic told me: "Don’t believe all that stuff Putin is dishing out about how sorry we all are about what has happened. A lot of…