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In February 1910, the future Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading...

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The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. For almost five decades after the...

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On 28 June 1984 a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeane...

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After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nati...

South Africa’s general election of 2024 saw the African National Congress losing its majority at the national level for the first time since the ar...

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

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A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understa...

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The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs ...

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