Ben MacIntyre

Far from being all in it together, PoWs in the notorious German camp reinforced the rigid class structure of British life, with working-class privates waiting hand and foot on public school officers. It even had its own branch of the Oxford drinking society, writes Ben Macintyre in an exclusive extr…

Ben Macintyre: More than 70 years after the Cambridge spy ring was revealed, MI6 documents suggest that it had another member

The author explains how the new BBC drama is the result of rare access to the regiment’s archives and a meeting with a 102-year-old survivor

One winter morning a decade ago, I took a walk on Hampstead Heath with my friend David Cornwell, better known as the novelist John le Carré. I was suffering fr

A seance led by Erik Jan Hanussen, a confidant of the Nazis in their early yearThe German far-right coup plot has the full cast: the aristocrat with the cravat

On a hot May afternoon in 1768, a mob of angry sailors descended on the Sunderland docks demanding higher wages. There they boarded several merchant vessels, c

BBC/Paul Chappells/Press Association“Befriend and betray” was the motto of one of the contestants in the BBC series The Traitors. The Soviet spy Kim Philby, in

The tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsion was a familiar Cold War tradition: the Soviet Union would throw out a group of diplomats, spies and journalists, and the We

Mary, Queen of Scots was intelligent, generous, remarkably tall for the 16th century, proud and doomed. She was also an extremely talented cryptographer.With th

Alleged Russian agent should have undergone the most rigorous vetting procedure but perhaps his story just seemed plausible