Virginia Cowles OBE gravitated to journalism in her youth. She covered wartime Europe as a roving correspondent for the Sunday Times among other publications, as well as the BBC and NBC. Cowles was a historian and biographer whose subjects included Winston Churchill and the Romanov, Rothschild, and Astor families.
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In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's tanks were sweeping toward Suez, a handful of daring raiders were making history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, often driving hundreds of miles through the deserts... SEE MORE