PN1501 In 1981, Israel launched a daring airstrike that destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad. But the mission, codenamed Operation Opera, was not the first military attempt to halt Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions. A year earlier, Iran’s air force had already bombed the same facility, with Israel’s secret backing. During the late 1970s and early … Read more
Lady Jane Grey is remembered as one of the most tragic figures in English royal history, a teenager who was placed on the throne against her will and held it for only nine days before her own government turned against her. Her downfall began with her cousin, King Edward VI, who named her his successor … Read more
On the evening of November 16, 2019, inside Buckingham Palace, a 59-year-old man sat under television lights to answer questions no member of the British royal family had ever faced on camera. Across from him sat Emily Maitlis of BBC Newsnight, one of the country’s most forensic interviewers. Within four days of the broadcast, his … Read more
On a January night in 1980, inside Windsor Castle, a young woman looked across a ballroom at the heir to the British throne and said something no one else in his life, before or after, would ever say to him. "I have never been so badly treated in my life. You've left me all alone … Read more
On August 20, 1947, in Lüneberg, Germany, the sentences were read out after more than eight months of trial. The defendants had either participated in a Nazi euthanasia program that killed mentally ill or physically disabled people deemed "unworthy of life," or had conducted painful and often deadly medical experiments on thousands of concentration camp … Read more
Dr. James Mitchell had spent 15 years studying photographic archives at the New York Historical Society, but he had never seen anything quite like this. The portrait arrived in a donation box from an estate sale in Brooklyn, part of dozens of glass plate negatives wrapped in yellowed newspaper from 1923. Most showed typical late … Read more
Stepan Bandera was born on January 1, 1909, in the Ukrainian village of Stari Uhryniv, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Andriy, was a Greek Catholic priest, and his mother, Myroslava, was the daughter of a priest. When Bandera was five, the First World War reached the valley where the family lived. Trenches … Read more
Thirty chairs. That was the entire congregation at Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021. One of them held a woman who was not a Windsor at all. The press had a name for her: the Duke's mistress. That name hides far more than it reveals. Her own husband was not in the chapel. She had … Read more
At Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021, only 30 people were permitted to attend. Britain was still under COVID restrictions, and the pews of St. George's Chapel at Windsor sat almost entirely empty. Cameras captured a lone Queen Elizabeth sitting apart from her family, masked and quietly devastated. But among those 30 mourners, seated with … Read more
Wykonuję dobrą robotę. Nie jestem jednak typem faceta, który szpanuje na firmowych imprezach albo gra w korporacyjne gierki. Jestem niewidzialny w taki sposób, w jaki niewidzialni są często pracownicy średniego szczebla. Wystarczająco kompetentny, żeby mnie zatrzymać, ale nie na tyle imponujący, żeby mnie awansować. Znałem Dianę Ballard, zanim cokolwiek się między nami wydarzyło. Była moją … Read more