History booksReviewAn engaging tale of how an unsung group from the Women’s Royal Naval Service helped to defeat the U-boats
This is a curious book. The publisher, though perhaps not the author, claims that it reveals how the second world war was won, but the eponymous “secret game” does not appear until page 143 and then turns out to be a training exercise for convoy escort officers. No doubt this was a useful addition to the armoury of reforms and new equipment that marked the final stages of thebattle of the Atlantic, the theme of the book. Read More...
US militaryObituaryGeneral Norman Schwarzkopf obituaryCommander of the coalition forces that drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait during the Gulf warGeneral Norman Schwarzkopf, who has died aged 78, commanded the coalition forces that won the Gulf war in 1991, driving Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm, whose design proved as effective as he had convinced his superiors in Washington it would be. The US secretary of defence Leon Panetta has described Schwarzkopf as " Read More...
Genetic sexual attractionYou're 40, happily married - and then you meet your long-lost brother and fall passionately in love. This isn't fiction; in the age of the sperm donor, it's a growing reality: 50% of reunions between siblings, or parents and offspring, separated at birth result in obsessive emotions. Last month, a former police officer was convicted of incest with his half-sister - but should we criminalise a bond hardwired into our psychology? Read More...
