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Dr Eugene Lazowski became known as the man who tricked the German occupation authorities with a fake typhus epidemic. The story became wildly exaggerated in later decades, yet the truth is still remarkable. This detailed account looks at what he actually did, who he really saved, and how the legend grew.

In late nineteen sixty five the Beatles were famous enough to sell any record they liked, yet worried enough about their future to reinvent what an album could be. Rubber Soul was their response. Born from a throwaway remark about “plastic soul,” it fused folk, soul and pop, turned the studio into a playground, and quietly rewrote the rules of rock music.

On 8 December 1980 a cold Monday that began like any other ended in global shock. John Lennon spent the day posing for Annie Leibovitz, giving an optimistic radio interview and working on Walking On Thin Ice before returning home to the Dakota, where Mark David Chapman shot him. The loss rippled across the world, culminating in one of the largest public vigils New York had ever seen.