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After getting shot down in the skies over France in the winter of 1939, airman Robert Bozdech stumbl..

On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to ..

Having given up a high-powered job, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when sh..

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As Hitler was attempting to conquer the western world, his armies were methodically pillaging the fi..

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