The audacious plan to assassinate the Big Three in Tehran in 1943 has been told by New York Times best-selling author Howard Blum A group of Nazi-trained commandos almost managed to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin during a top secret summit in Tehran, a new book has claimed. The book, Night … Read more
Night of the Assassins, Bu Howard Blum, goes on sale next month by Harper books A group of Nazi-trained commandos almost managed to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin during a top secret summit in Tehran, a new book has claimed. The book, Night of the Assassins: The Untold story of Hitler’s … Read more
A ‘fiercely independent’ 102-year-old woman who once worked with Winston Churchill was given just two hours to live after contracting Covid-19 – but was sitting up in bed with a bowl of Weetabix days later. Catherine Grace had a secretive government role on London’s South Bank but has never divulged the nature of her work … Read more
It is a sobering thought, as Boris Johnson emerges from self-isolation, that coronavirus would probably have killed Winston Churchill had he caught it any time between his first serious bout of pneumonia in May 1943 and his fourth in February 1945. Churchill was a male smoker in his 70s with a serious underlying health condition … Read more
It is a sobering thought, as Boris Johnson emerges from self-isolation, that coronavirus would probably have killed Winston Churchill had he caught it any time between his first serious bout of pneumonia in May 1943 and his fourth in February 1945. Churchill was a male smoker in his 70s with a serious underlying health condition … Read more
TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) WAR BOOKS OF THE YEAR TO WAR WITH THE WALKERS by Annabel Venning (Hodder £20, 336 pp) Wars are fought not by politicians and generals, but by ordinary people called on to do extraordinary things. Like the brothers and sisters of the middle-class … Read more