Ripping up the Iron Curtain
How a mass picnic party broke open Hungary’s Austrian border and foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
ByHow a mass picnic party broke open Hungary’s Austrian border and foreshadowed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
By William BoydKipling‘s stories had an intense allure for me: I too was a boy living, if not in an Indian…
By William BoydIn the 1930s, the creator of Maigret travelled the world as a journalist. His photographs reveal an artistic sensibility…
By William BoydThe master of the spy novel could be simultaneously old-fashioned and thoroughly modern – but what made his fiction…
By William BoydGraham Greene was the consummate literary professional. But a new biography shows how profound mental instability shaped his chaotic…
By William BoydJohn Bowen’s remarkably restrained story relates a chance encounter some 45 years after the war ended.
By William BoydIf poetry was the literary form of the First World War, it was fiction that best expressed the reality…
By William BoydHarry Rée was a grammar school teacher when war broke out in 1939. Then he joined Churchill’s secret army.
By William BoydThe division of Berlin created a cage designed to stop a population fleeing. It was a triumph of East…
By William Boyd