Lie that lost Hitler the war: He’d reckoned without two deadly weapons: patriotism and the weather
BOOK OF THE WEEK BARBAROSSA by Jonathan Dimbleby (Viking £25, 640pp) Moscow on a midsummer’s night in 1941 was a balmy place to be. For the discerning, there was Chekhov’s Three Sisters playing to full houses, while opera lovers had a choice between Rigoletto and La Traviata. Others fished for their suppers on the banks … Read more