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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Darkness at Noon
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(1940) Novel by *Koestler, published in an English translation from his German original. Inspired by the Moscow trials of 1936–8, it was influential as the first work of imaginative power to draw attention to the realities of Stalin's regime. It recounts the experiences of an old party member, N.S. Rubashov. His arrest in the middle of the night by No. 1's secret police leads inexorably, after lengthy interrogations, to his secret execution in the prison cellar. Koestler himself had spent some months in a Spanish jail in 1937, daily expecting death at the hands of the Fascists.
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