The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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For Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, the spectacular collapse of the British Empire after the Second World War was like a bereavement. It even followed — almost to the letter — the classic sequence of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and, finally,...
Damien Lewis My new book, SAS Band of Brothers is all about bringing history alive. Making a decades-old conflict like WWII feel accessible and real. In a similar vein I tend to read gripping, visceral narrative history that can and does inspire. So, don’t be put off...
On October 4th, 1983, Simon Sebag-Montefiore and Scott Martin met the Prime Minister at Number 10. What were your feelings about the jingoism displayed by the tabloid press during the Falklands conflict? What would you describe as jingoism? It is a word which is...
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