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‘A Man of Paradoxes’: Antony Beevor on Rasputin

‘A Man of Paradoxes’: Antony Beevor on Rasputin

To mark the release of Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs, Roger Moorhouse sat down with the author to discuss the truth behind the “mad monk” and his role in the collapse of the Russian Empire.

Antony, thank you so much for joining me. I very much enjoyed the book. I read it over the weekend, absolutely raced through it, as always. My first question, I suppose, is why Rasputin? What took you to that? I appreciate it's very much related to your previous book...

“War is War, Alas!”: The Story of The Laconia

“War is War, Alas!”: The Story of The Laconia

A sinking of a POW carrier by a U-boat in the South Atlantic exhibits in equal measure the brutality and humanity of Germany’s submarine strategy in the Second World War.

On the morning of 12 September 1942, off the West African coast, the watch officer aboard U-156 spotted a plume of smoke on the horizon. Already three weeks out of Lorient, U-156 – a Type IX submarine, on its fourth war patrol – was due to join a wolfpack in the...