Gary Lachman 
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Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus Löb. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crosse …

‘Monk’s energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein’s life’ Sunday Times’Ray Monk’s reconnection of Wittgenstein’s …

Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, as featured in Macbeth. Her father Hugh, the 25th Thane of Cawdor, inherited good looks, wealth, an ancient title, three stately homes an …

Knife-edge decisions, adrenalin rushes, extreme weather, bitter rivalries, heart-stopping races – they are all in a day’s work for Ben Ainslie. Against all odds, in the London 2012 Olympics Ben Ainsl …

Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and …

Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man’s childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. From his …

Genius, Confucian, fascist, traitor, peace activist—Ezra Pound—love him or hate him, he is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential modernists and controversial poets of the twentieth ce …

VIRGINIA VALLEJO:Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialite PABLO ESCOBAR:Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious – …

Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and thirty-five years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of thirteen women scarcely a …

Anna was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives – and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it?Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King”s ‘Beloved Sister” looks at Anna …