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For sale: Churchill's "remarkable' letter before daring prison break
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (67+ words) The Times For sale: Churchill's "remarkable' letter before daring prison break The 25-year-old future prime minister was captured during the Boer War. Read what he thought of it below as his papers return to market at "75, 000 "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited…...
Frenchman whose guerrilla tactics rid Japan of their inferiority complex
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (62+ words) The Times Frenchman whose guerrilla tactics rid Japan of their inferiority complex The nation that held the Netherlands to a draw used to "act like little children against the best. That all changed under Philippe Troussier "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited…...
100 years ago: The stern-faced man Britain looked to in its hour of trial
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (55+ words) The Times 100 years ago: The stern-faced man Britain looked to in its hour of trial From The Sunday Times, June 13, 1926 "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Ends soon. Enjoy unlimited digital access....
What five years of the Sunday Times 100 tells us about Britain
1+ week, 5+ day ago (58+ words) The Times What five years of the Sunday Times 100 tells us about Britain Plus: how we compiled this year's list "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Ends soon. Enjoy unlimited digital access. Enjoy unlimited digital access. $1 for 6 months....
Our grandfather killed Hitler " the long shadow of trauma
1+ week, 5+ day ago (58+ words) The Times Our grandfather killed Hitler " the long shadow of trauma In Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley, two siblings attempt to move on from their childhood, developing a strange delusion in the process "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all…...
Churchill, Hitler and Franco yearned to be artists " but who was the best painter?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (73+ words) The Times Churchill, Hitler and Franco yearned to be artists " but who was the best painter? As our art critic wandered through the exhibition of Britain's wartime leader's paintings at the Wallace Collection, a difficult question kept popping into his…...
How Tom Tugendhat helped his adversaries surrender with dignity
2+ week, 5+ day ago (60+ words) The Times How Tom Tugendhat helped his adversaries surrender with dignity Plus: Careers advice from Michael Heseltine; the book Peter Murrell kept secret; Piers Morgan meets a hostile crowd; and more tributes to Gladys Dickson "1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access…...
Jim Wren obituary: one of the last of the Allied Japanese Po Ws
3+ week, 1+ day ago (14+ words) The Times...
Commander Tony Broughton obituary: wartime sailor who harried Italian cruiser
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (256+ words) On the night of July 17, 1943, during Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Italian light cruiser'Scipione Africano'made a dash through the Strait of Messina for Taranto, the naval base in the heel of Italy. Equipped with radar,'Scipione'detected four…...
Vilnius's past as "Jerusalem of the north' brought to life again
3+ week, 6+ day ago (586+ words) Looking back from exile on his youth in interwar Vilnius, the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz remembered its sprawling Jewish district as a cosmopolitan "labyrinth" of polyglot booksellers and Yiddish theatres, culturally closer to Paris than to Warsaw. Before the Second…...