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Restituting history’s missing pages
STEPHEN SMELLIE lauds Colin Turbett's effort to make the past inform the future
JOINT ENTERPRISE: Soviet light tank T-26 of the 6th Armoured Division is driven through Tabriz during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia (Iran) in August 1941
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
THE Soviet Union’s contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany has been downplayed. The focus is on the Battle of Britain, D-Day rather than on the millions of Soviet citizens who died in the battle to resist the Nazi war machine.
There is no popular understanding of the extent to which the Soviet Union was an ally Britain supported and co-operated with on a wide range of operations in the war effort. Turbett details these from official records and tells the stories of ordinary service personnel who engaged in joint activities and risked their lives to take supplies to the besieged Soviets.
The biggest operation was the Arctic convoys round the north of Norway to take weapons, tanks, planes and other equipment to the northern, and often ice-bound ports of Archangel and Murmansk.
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