THIS IS NOT the story of Olga Knipper-Chekhova, the versatile actress who married Chekhov and survived him for fifty-five years. It is the life of the actress's niece, another Olga Knipper, who had ...

As Antony Beevor points out in his excellent new history of the operation, there was dismay at this codename even at the time. One paratrooper complained that ‘market garden’ made it sound ‘like we ...