Tag: East Germany

Len Deighton, author who reinvented the spy thriller wi...

‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into som...

Foul food and flagrant corruption: A look behind the Ir...

In 1989 Tony Scotland journeyed through Soviet Eastern Europe. Its governments –...

The scarcely believable story of the world’s oldest cru...

All ocean-going vessels have a tale to tell, but few are as fascinating as the l...

Berlin Wall opened for first time

20 December 1963