Ben Macintyre

The deciphering of a charred scroll found in the ruins of Herculaneum marks a scientific breakthrough capable of bringing much more of ancient Greece to life

The real winner of the election was anger and Keir Starmer should be prepared to find that, sometimes, things can only get worse

Russia’s move to create a maritime ‘Silk Road’ with China recalls the doomed expedition of Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553

In Guy Ritchie’s new Second World War drama, the Germans are uniformly evil while the English smoke cigars and play cricket. The novelist Ben Macintyre sorts fact from fiction

This week’s exchange of innocent people for spies and a killer bears only a passing resemblance to Cold War trades

On May 5, 1980, live TV captured the dramatic moment when the SAS began their rescue attempt. Yet what happened inside the building was even more breathtaking, Ben Macintyre reveals in his explosive new book

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity.

Standing in the elegant entrance hall of the overrun Iranian embassy, the exasperated leader of the gang of Arab gunmen told PC Trevor Lock: 'Mr Trevor, I've had enough.'

Inside the blacked-out building, now in flames and awash with CS gas, the remaining five terrorists were being hunted down as the SAS operation reached its dramatic conclusion.

Imprisoned in a penal colony, the late Russian opposition leader wrote a darkly funny memoir that is a paean to reading