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The horrors and the hope in the diary of Anne Frank
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on his first reading of one of the most important books of the 20th century
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The last days in the dying Soviet empire
JAMES RODGERS was working in Russia in the summer of 1991, when the cracks in the USSR’s system suddenly broke apart.
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The wasted Russian Revolution of August 1991
ARTEMY TROITSKY was on the barricades in August 1991 to prevent the coup from succeeding. He says the freedoms that followed were soon squandered
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Gorbachev’s most dangerous days – when the world held its breath and the USSR imploded
With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, Britain's then man in Moscow tells of his ringside seat as the August Coup that preceded the break-up of the Soviet Union played out before an astonished world
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Was Nero the victim of a conspiracy?
The uncaring tyrant of legend may actually have been a pragmatic politician betrayed and then belittled by his opponent
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The darker side of Britain’s golden summer
Images of Ian Botham with his bat aloft and the pageantry of the Royal Wedding have created a popular memory of 1981 as a summer of national pride for Britain. But the reality was quite different
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When cold war broke out in the Olympic swimming pool
Looking back at one of the most notorious episodes in the Games' history, when sport and politics combined in ferocious violence
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Antwerp, the lost city
The buildings and monuments of Antwerp can still take your breath away. But in a long-ago golden age, it was the centre of Europe
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An eyewitness to history: Watching the Berlin Wall go up
Berlin journalist Annette von Broecker’s life has spanned her city's division and reunification
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35 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Those caught up in the momentous events of the fall of the Berlin Wall recall its demise 35 years later