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He’s Crafty: How George Downing Kept His Head

REVIEW: ‘Cromwell's Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing’ by Dennis Sewell

The Soviet Defector Who Did the Most Damage

REVIEW: ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried To Kill the KGB’ by Gordon Corera

McMahon Launches Nationwide Civics Push As Students Bomb History and Government Tests

‘A country cannot survive if its values are forgotten,’ McMahon says

Economic Giants Collide

REVIEW: ‘Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War’ by Jill Eicher

Bogged Down

REVIEW: ‘Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare’ by Gregory Carleton

Trump, Xi, and a Brewing Battle Over the Indian Ocean

Putting the Thrill Back in the Spy Thriller

REVIEW: 'Gabriel's Moon' by William Boyd

What's All the Kerfuffle About?

REVIEW: 'Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English' by Ben Yagoda

No, Churchill Was Not the Villain

His Word Was His Bond

REVIEW: ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’ by Nicholas Shakespeare