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What they didn't hear was most telling #berlintunnel #philipthompson #history Enter The Spy Among Us #philipthompson #berlintunnel #georgeblake $6.5m to build the Cold War's most sophisticated spy tunnel #philipthompson #coldwar #berlintunnel It's always safer on the ground floor #philipthompson #spystories Poland's Invisible Cold War Spies Meet the real James Bond WW2 Japan was despicable Did this African country copy the USA flag? Radium is incredibly dangerous, and yet... A look back at the controversial Person of the Year Award What you probably didn't know about the invention of the barcode Black lung disease is still killing miners today The humble matchstick and the devastating impact of phossy jaw The invention of barbed wire changed the world in more ways we realise This man was a military genius The Cuban Missile Crisis in 18 Seconds Nazis weren't the only ones to have concentration camps Julius Caesar declared war on Rome by crossing the Rubicon river The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Reformer Why your choice of beer bottle is usually either green or brown Why do I feel so Kafkaesque? The ‘war waged without firing a single shot’ wasn’t so cold after all America wasn't ready to see Charlie Chaplin play Hitler This grim WW2 artefact is a stark reminder of Nazi depravity Winston Churchill's OG Escape from Pretoria Operation RYAN took the world to the edge of nuclear war Everyone alive today has this man to thank This NATO military exercise almost sparked World War 3 The incident that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war This man saved the world during the Cold War What was the Iron Curtain?