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A grainy, black and white photograph of three v2 rockets (Credit: Getty Images)
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The V2 rocket smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Poland

By Fiona Macdonald

A black-and-white photo of Kim Philby in a suit speaking to a room of men (Credit: Getty Images)
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The British double agent who taught enemy spies

By Fiona Macdonald
Black-and-white photo of Eva Perón smiling (Credit: Getty Images)
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The macabre kidnapping of Eva Perón's corpse

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photo of a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine breaking through the ocean surface (Credit: Alamy)
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The nuclear submarine wreck that is a 'time bomb'

By Fiona Macdonald
A close up black and white image of J Paul Gety (Credit: Getty Images)
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How J Paul Getty became the world's richest man

By Fiona Macdonald
A still of a man riding a horse and holding up a gun in Clash of Loyalties (Credit: Iraqi Film Corporation)
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Saddam Hussein's epic Hollywood-style film

By Fiona Macdonald
A black and white portrait of John John le Carré sat in a living room, with a television behind him (Credit: Getty Images)
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Le Carré's novels were shaped by a con-man father

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white portrait of Lord Lucan and his wife in 20th-Century aristocratic clothing (Credit: Getty Images)
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The aristocrat who vanished after killing a nanny

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photo of American war correspondent Martha Gellhorn talking with soldiers of the British Army on the Italian front in 1944 (Credit: Getty Images)
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The woman who hid on a ship to report on D-Day

By Fiona Macdonald
Black and white photograph of Martha Mitchell pointing her finger to the sky with her arm around a man wearing a tux (Credit: Getty Images)
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The Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed

By Matt Glazebrook
Helen Sharman in astronaut gear next to two men (Credit: Courtesy of Helen Sharman)
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The story behind the first British person in space

By Fiona Macdonald
A black-and-white photograph of three young girls stood against a dry stone wall (Credit: Getty Images)
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The divine visions predicting the fall of the USSR

By Fiona Macdonald
A black and white image of Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Church, King George VI and Princess Margaret waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day 1945 (Credit: Getty Images)
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Queen Elizabeth II's secret night out on VE Day

By Greg McKevitt
A black-and-white image of Rose Dugdale with her fist raised (Credit: Alamy)
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The English heiress who stole art for the IRA

By Greg McKevitt
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis poses for a photo sitting in a white dress and pearl necklace, with wine glasses on a white-tablecloth table behind her (Credit: Getty Images)
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The US public's frenzy over Jackie O's possessions

By Greg McKevitt
Black-and-white photo of Albert Hofmann in a suit and tie examining a collection of rocks on a shelf in 1976 (Credit: Getty Images)
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The 'bizarre' story of the world's first LSD trip

By Greg McKevitt