Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain | 
The nation was to be protected from any double entendres about pickled gherkins...
humouress Well, thank goodness for that! 6y
charl08 @humouress there are some comedy gems in this one. 6y
The nation was to be protected from any double entendres about pickled gherkins...
In some ways this is quite a dry book, but the history is fascinating (to me). I had no idea that the famous "British" traitor" Lord Haw Haw", who made broadcasts to Britain from Nazi Germany, was actually Irish. Despite reading about him in a book about Holloway prison, I also didn't remember that his wife was let off, or that he had worked for the British secret service before the war.