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Solo traveller who shared ventures behind the Iron Curtain with The Journal in 1966 publishes second book

Solo traveller who shared ventures behind the Iron Curtain with The Journal in 1966 publishes second book
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Politicians Make Bad Historians

Politicians Make Bad Historians
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How to Get the Most Out of Prague in Just 24 Hours

How to Get the Most Out of Prague in Just 24 Hours
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As a child, I fled Hitler as Europe descended into war Now I watch history repeat itself with horror

Foreign correspondent Hella Pick, who has died at the age of 94, was at the heart of virtually every major diplomatic event since the early 1960s. She was utterly formidable in her determination to get the story. Her range of contacts was extraordinary and her knowledge encyclopaedic. Well into her nineties she was writing elegant longform pieces for Prospect, including this article drawing sobering parallels between the war she fled as a Kindertransport child in 1939 and the rise of Putin. She was one of a kind.

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Politicians make poor historians

It's like a game of spot the difference, but instead of looking for discrepancies between two almost identical pictures, it's about identifying similarities in disparate images. But they're so richly detailed it's always possible to find they have something in common. This game is especially popular in wartime.

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