When we sent the April issue to print two weeks ago, we were seeing an epidemic unfold, and had asked four historians to contribute to an article on lessons which could be drawn from history. By the time the magazine was printed, the world was experiencing a pandemic, the scale of which draws parallels with the Spanish Influenza outbreak in 1918.

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In 1942, a Soviet sniper – with 309 dead Germans behind her – was sent on a propaganda tour of the US and Britain. But was she all that she seemed? This month’s cover story investigates.

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