The CIA, the Vietnam deserters and the aptly named Operation Chaos
‘Keep my name out of it’, was the fairly standard reply when Matthew Sweet started researching the story of the…
Carve their names with pride
‘Women,’ Captain Selwyn Jepson, SOE’s senior recruiting officer, once wrote, ‘have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage…
Carve their names with pride
‘Women,’ Captain Selwyn Jepson, SOE’s senior recruiting officer, once wrote, ‘have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage…
Licence to kill
As I read the last chapter of this book, news broke that the Russian ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov, had…
What did you do in the last war, Maman?
‘La France,’ as everyone knows, is female. Perhaps this is due to gendered assumptions about the beauty, cuisine and couture…
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‘This is the new runway for drunk BA pilots.’
‘Do you think he’s noticed we’re abroad?’
‘Peter Stringfellow has left
you all his clubs.’
‘Do you mind? There’s a queue!’
‘I’m on that difficult second book.’
‘Dad’s a lot easier to buy for
now that he’s a woman.’
‘The shower isn’t working!’
‘Waiter – is the fly in my soup locally sourced?’
