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Explore the truth behind
                                                                                                            the life of the Powhatan
                                                                                                               princess Pocahontas


        Welcome                                                                          Editor’s picks



        Britain’s victory in World War II is something   men who may have inspired James Bond, as   13    Protestant Reformation
        of an article of faith — the work of gleaming   well as the spymaster who would later invent      It was a point of principle
                                                                                                          that tore Europe in two
        Spitfires over the rolling English Channel   him: Ian Fleming.                                    through sectarian strife.
        and daring Commando raids taking place   Bringing to the surface some of history’s                Discover what sparked this
        in the dark. The real secret weapon, though,   untold stories has always been our goal            religious revolt, the key
                                                                                                          theories and battlegrounds.
        was intelligence.                       and you’ll find many more across this issue.
          To oversimplify things, the USA had raw   History is made up of a billion glittering   74       Ned Kelly’s Last Stand
                                                                                                          The very personification of
        materials and the USSR had men, but Great               diamonds with a million                   the outlaw bushranger, but
        Britain had a web of codebreakers, spies,               facets. The more of them                  does the armoured outlaw
                                                                                                          really deserve his status as a
        saboteurs and secret agents that allowed                we see, the more our                      champion of freedom? Find
        our mossy island to punch above its weight              understanding grows.                      out in our feature.
        and bloody the nose of Nazi Germany when                 We’re only just         80               Deborah Lipstadt
        Hitler was at the height of his terrible powers.        beginning...                              We speak to the fearless
                                                                                                          academic who took on a
        It’s an honour for us to pay tribute to these                                                     Holocaust denier in court
        unsung heroes who fought a war in the                   James Hoare                               and won to discover her
                                                                                                          audacious vision for the fight
        shadows, and discover some of incredible                Editor in Chief                           against fake news.

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