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Throw a pile of overdue fuel bills on the fire, get cosy and settle in for a Flying Pigs Christmas special.
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Cipher Brief Expert and former Senior Member of the British Foreign Office Tim Willasey-Wilsey reviews the book Afghan Napoleon
On April 30, 1975, Sandy Gall was one of the few Western journalists to stay in Saigon to witness the South Vietnamese capital's fall to the forces of the Communist North. In previous days, chaotic scenes at the American embassy had provided the most iconic images of this final act of the Vietnam War. Thousands of locals who had reason to fear the victors begged and fought to be allowed aboard the last U.S. helicopters taking a lucky few from the embassy roof to navy vessels lying offshore. That morning Gall, later ITN's distinguished newscaster, entered the by now abandoned and looted comp...