A book lent to me before the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII on September 1 was Dark Times, Decent Men: Stories of Irishmen in World War II. They from the North and South of Ireland and were in the British army, navy and the RAF and armies and merchant navies of the USA, Canada, Australia etc.

WHAT do you think you ought to read in a ‘very English’ book about post-war Europe, Spies and the Cold War? 

When I was a teenager, most of my musical tastes were different from those of my parents, but there was one act we all loved. That was Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy.

The mystery of the golden Amber Room continues to shine, says Kya deLongchamps

Up to 350 members of right-wing student groups gathered in central Vienna to mark the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies, as about 400 people took part in a counter-demonstration.