Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

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[PDF file]: […] evidence tested and, when possible, a portion of any extract from the DNA evidence should be preserved for further testing.’110 ‘Only make the rubble jump’ – Winston Churchill To refute the charge of fraud, I extensively reviewed the voluminous Spandau records. They comprise 36 microfilm reels at the National Archives in College Park, MD […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

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[…] commented: ‘ . . . with the rise of Thatcher and the great show trials of the early nineties related to the clandestine Anglo-American arming of Iraq – Euromac, Ordtec, Matrix Churchill, Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir – the iron fist of political control has been worthy of anything that has come out of Eastern Europe.’

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] . 33 hacking of US politics, these are plausible but not verifiable. Yet, accommodating a sphere of influence for a great power is exactly what FDR and Churchill did with Stalin, and every president from Truman to George H. W. Bush did with the Soviet Union. When East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles rose up […]

Donald Trump and the Christian Right

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[PDF file]: […] required to save the country and God has chosen Donald Trump. He has been ‘served up by the hand of Providence’ like ‘Margaret Thatcher, George Patton, Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln’ before. (p. 64) No one should doubt what is at stake. ‘Satan’, he tells his readers, ‘considers taking this nation down to be […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] three right, and seems unconcerned about the others. He focuses on Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

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[PDF file]: […] was strongly anti-appeasement, and had probably been made aware just what his fellow anti-appeasers thought of the book. The demise of Chamberlain, and his replacement by Winston Churchill, also brought a new resolve to the anti-appeasement camp, along with the internment of other Fascists and fellow travellers. Bryant himself narrowly avoided this fate, and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] spheres of influence over selfdetermination; corruption over transparency; and repression over democracy.” Yet, accommodating a sphere of influence for a great power is exactly what FDR and Churchill did with Stalin, and every president from Truman to George H. W. Bush did with the Soviet Union. When East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles rose up […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] three right, and seems unconcerned about the others. He focuses on Fleming’s private sex life, the theft of his friends’ wives and his association with celebrities like Churchill, Admiral Godfrey, General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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[PDF file]: […] Hastings attributes this to Britain’s (and the USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

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[PDF file]: […] with enthusiasm across the globe. From the start of 1941 onwards, similar pledges were made by democracies, resistance movements and international organisations. The Atlantic Charter, signed by Churchill and Roosevelt in August 1941, included the commitment to secure ‘freedom from fear and want’ for all, along with ‘improved labour standards, economic advancement, and social […]

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