There is a building inside Vatican City that does not look like a bank. It sits in the lower floors of a fifteenth-century tower that once served as a dungeon, and for most of the Second World War it operated with a freedom that no commercial bank o...

In the early morning hours of April 30, 1943, His Majesty's Submarine Seraph surfaced in darkness approximately 1,600 yards off the southwestern coast of Spain near the port of Huelva. The crew gathered on deck for what their commander, Lieuten...

In the winter of 1941, a thirty-year-old Spaniard with no training in espionage, no connections to any intelligence service, and no particular qualifications beyond an overactive imagination decided to take down Adolf Hitler. Juan Pujol García had e...

March 1945. German intelligence is staring at reconnaissance photos of the Rhine River, and they're seeing exactly what you'd expect to see before a major American offensive. Tank formations. Artillery positions. Supply dumps. Their radio intercepts...

The Monster That Fell From Heaven Picture this: You’re in London, it’s September 1944, and you’ve just survived years of the Blitz. The war’s turning, everyone knows it, and there’s this cautious optimism creeping back into daily life. Then suddenly...

What Is Unit 8200? Unit 8200 is the signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cyber warfare unit of the Israel Défense Forces (IDF), widely considered the Israeli equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or Britain's GCHQ. Responsible for colle...

In the winter of 1944, a nineteen-year-old German conscript crouched in a frozen foxhole somewhere east of the Vistula, his fingers too numb to feel the trigger of his rifle. He did not know that the Reich was collapsing, that the war would end in f...

The morning mist hung low over Gdańsk Bay on 1 September 1939, when history pivoted on the smallest of hinges. At precisely 4:45 a.m., the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein—a relic from the Kaiser’s navy pressed into service for Hitler’s new war—...

How eleven minutes of violence shattered a community and forced a nation to confront its darkest impulses A Festival of Light The afternoon of 14 December 2025 unfolded with the languid warmth that December brings to Sydney's eastern suburbs. At Bon...