At a new museum inside Schloss Colditz, our writer hears tales of derring-do involving abseiling, dirty laundry and a sewing machine William Cook writes about European travel for The Telegraph, with a ...

His tenure, along with his ability to speak English and French, "gave me as good a chance as anyone on the German staff of ...

Thrilling narratives of escape from captivity during World War II are legion. The story of Colditz is one of the best known: an oft-recounted tale of jolly good chaps, all in it together, outwitting ...

This past spring, I watched the movie “Operation Mincemeat.” It was based on Ben Macintyre’s book on the British plan called Operation Mincemeat during World War II. There’s plenty of intrigue, ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...

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This story is part of the February 11 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. Ben Macintyre has written more than a dozen books about World War II and the Cold War ...

HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major William Anderson found freedom in art during four long years of captivity. HELD in one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious PoW camps, Major ...

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps ...