So Long, Major
Death of David Ogden-Stiers….
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Geoffrey Jackson and the Tupamaros Guerillas
The 1971 kidnapping of British Ambassador Geoffrey Jackson…
The Bachelor Chef
How to ‘score with girls’ in 1965….
Lost in Translation
Don Lett’s ‘Skinhead’ Documentary….
The Americanization of Vietnam
David Halberstam’s classic Playboy article….
Romance 1960s Style
The golden age of romance?…
Len Deighton’s Perfect Saturday
Len Deighton’s London Dossier….
The Gulag Archipelago
The anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s exile….
A Burnt Out Case
Graham Greene’s ‘A Burnt Out Case’…..
Paul Hogarth and John Betjeman
In Praise of Churches by John Betjeman…..
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