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					<description><![CDATA[Meet Lou Junod. A leather goods salesman from Brooklyn, he worshipped the sun and loved nothing better than a “fresh burn.” He carried a solid gold money clip shaped like an Oscar statue. A grenade almost killed him in Normandy]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stalin&#8217;s Long Reach</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is one of the most notorious murders of the 20th century. In 1940 a Soviet spy killed the exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky in his home in Mexico City, acting on orders from Joseph Stalin. The shocking crime]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dispatches from Genêt</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris. Eugen Weidmann, a German drifter, had killed six people]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The King from the North</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The compressing effect of history tends to reduce British monarchs to a few words and deeds. Henry VIII, who reigned from 1509 to 1547, went through wives like handkerchiefs, in the process breaking with Rome]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charting Points Unknown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a scene that feels straight out of fiction, the jumping-off point for a fable. In the bowels of a building at a London university, a curious professor opens a turquoise door that reads “Map Room.” Inside lies a forgotten space]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Weave of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A famous photograph captures Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin during the 1945 Yalta Conference. They look cold in their greatcoats, and Stalin alone wears military dress. A handful of luxurious carpets warm the ground]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ink-Stained Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before he became a spy or a novelist, Ian Fleming was a newspaperman. In 1933 he reported for Reuters on a blockbuster show trial in the Soviet Union in which a group of British engineers faced trumped-up charges of espionage.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Book-Lined Retreat</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Picture a humble study. It is situated on a house’s second floor, near the bedrooms, forming an inner sanctum removed from the bustle of the street. A lamp sits on a desk to give a working writer plenty of light. Books line the walls from floor to ceiling]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Road to Stardom</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Josh Brolin is a postmodern cowboy. Masculine but too vulnerable to be macho, at ease on a motorcycle or on horseback, he looks best with dust in the grooves of his skin. Some of his scars are self-inflicted. “I have made life harder than it’s needed to be,” the actor concedes in his memoir]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Call of the Climb</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Modern mountaineering is a quest for niche glory. The Earth’s highest peaks have been climbed and reclimbed so many times now that elite alpinists must distinguish themselves with obscure prizes: ascend faster, or by a harder route,]]></description>
		
		
		
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