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  • Book, Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster

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    Spotlight on a spy

    “M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster” by Henry Hemming (Penguin Random House)

    • 16. July 2017 - by CM in Books

    When English author Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel in 1953, it introduced the  character of M, the Head of the British Secret Service who would subsequently send 007[…]

    Book, The Tunnels. The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall

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    Bravery beneath Berlin

    “The Tunnels. The Untold Story of the Escapes Under the Berlin Wall” by Greg Mitchell

    • 9. April 2017 - by BT in Books

    No matter that East German leader Walter Ulbricht dubbed the wall built on August 13, 1961 to divide Berlin as an “anti-Fascist protection barrier”. To the free world it was[…]

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    Living in the Wild Times?

    Have no fear – this indomitable heroine weaves her way through the worst life can dredge up

    • 11. December 2016 - by BT in Books

    Anglo-Hungarian author Gail Varga writes about the relevance of her new tragicomic novel “Wild Times with Granite” to everything from the fall-out after the US was Trumped by an almost[…]

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    The filth and the fury relived

    “Lonely Boy, Tales from a Sex Pistol” by Steve Jones

    • 4. December 2016 - by BT in Books

    Steve Jones tells us that if he’s trying to be honest about his life, it’s got to be all or nothing in this autobiography. Such a declaration Is a praiseworthy[…]

    book-the-hungarian-revolution01

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    Revolt of a nation and its ultimate failure

    Secret police, daring students, water polo and more: 1956 Uprising recalled

    • 19. November 2016 - by Rupert Colley in Books

    The sixtieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution has just been and gone. Here, in the UK, the occasion passed almost without notice. Anyone who blinked would have missed it. Yet[…]

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    Art spells only doom for Natalija

    “Opera” by Kiára Árgenta

    • 18. November 2016 - by BT in Books

    “At that time, Opera seemed like a glamorous world, a place of opulence and beauty and bouquets of roses for the leading singers. I never knew that once inside the[…]

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    From teetotaller to junkie

    “Blitzed. Drugs in Nazi Germany” by Norman Ohler

    • 23. October 2016 - by BT in Books

    Adolf Hitler was almost constantly accompanied by his personal physician, who kept the Fuhrer topped up with regular injections of steroids and opioids, as well as a stream of untested[…]

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    A fly on Donald’s wall

    “Trump & Me” by Mark Singer

    • 25. September 2016 - by BT in Books

    The world is riveted on the gripping US election campaign. Who will be the least disliked on November 8: the “unhealthy, crooked” one or the bonkers bazillionaire with the bouffant?[…]

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    Sequel can’t quite repeat author’s success

    Review: The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    • 11. November 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    Set in part in some of the darker moments of Barcelona’s history, The Prisoner of Heaven sees Daniel, a young bookseller’s son, team up with Fermín, a man whose past[…]

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    Lion’s pride flares up as marital cage closes in

    Review: Captive Lion by Zsigmond Móricz, translated by Bernard Adams

    • 5. March 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books · Leisure

    “The best thing in life was for there to be no complications. Secure job, good wife, nice home.” Thus ponders Aladár Vágrándy as he strolls towards his office to start[…]

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