With crackerjack moviemaking and none of the mustiness or restraint of official history, it chronicles the Allied conquest of Nazi-occupied Europe.
For many years it was denied - not least in the official history of The Times - that the two had met in the run-up to the bid being cleared.
Sir John, who is stepping down as commissioner on January 31, was speaking at the launch of The Official History of the Metropolitan Police, at a reception also attended by Home Secretary David Blunkett.
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The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
Official Russian history asserts that Stalin believed that Germany, even if it were to emerge from war as a victor, would be so exhausted that it would be unable to wage war with the USSR for at least a decade.
But if you are one of those who care whether the chancellor cut the deficit in 2012-13 - I thought I should let you know that the latest official version of history says he didn't.
For a woman of her generation, who was told by her Wellesley graduation speaker that her role in life was to raise the next generation of educated citizens, becoming the highest-ranking female official in American history should have been triumph enough.
Because of Russia's history of official atheism and anti-Semitism, there are few countries where Jewish-Christian relations present so many paradoxes.
And while the debate over junkets rages in the virtual world, the practice does, in fact, have a history of official regulation.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
History shows that official attempts to pick technology winners, no matter how initially promising, usually end in tears.
This week began black history month, an official period of racial and cultural appreciation that many Americans disclaim as either too laudatory or belittling.
Melissa Nobles, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialises in apologology (our word), says that they can give official backing to a particular view of history, help contain political grievances peacefully and encourage public-spiritedness among alienated parts of the population.
While the Marine Corps-Special Operations tiltrotor aircraft's official title is the Osprey, its extraordinary developmental history is more reminiscent of the story of the legendary Phoenix.
Forty-four years later, the 21st official film in the second most lucrative movie franchise in history (after "Star Wars") has made its London premiere.
And as a little bit of a history lesson, the custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.
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New official estimates put the leak the worst oil spill in American history.
What this means is, even though this new series takes a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, it is also looking back to those great past eras as well and lifting the best and most important elements, to remain faithful to the full 50 years of Spider-Man history (a 50-year anniversary that is official this August, by the way).
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Such problems are to be expected over the agency's long history and don't necessarily reflect a systemic or cultural issue, the official said.
Conservatives are having a laugh after it surfaced that the official presidential biographies on the White House website have been updated to inject President Obama into history.
Mr. Morales has a criminal history that includes a conviction on an attempted-murder charge in 1998, the official said.
In neighbouring Estonia (also hard bitten by history) support is well over 90%, says Luukas Ilves, a defence ministry official.
How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?
That, too, unleashed countless response videos, yet Psy and his horse dance were the main attraction, with an official video that has hit 1.3 billion views (the most in YouTube's eight-year history).
This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.
The Society of Jesus, to give the order its official title, although proclaiming its unswerving loyalty to the Pope in Rome, has at various times in its history tangled with the Roman curia and has even been suppressed in many parts of the world, only to re-emerge.
He was a champion of community activism and global diplomacy: He was even chosen to serve as the official Culture Ambassador for Belize, and served as the head of the country's National Institute of Culture and History.
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