There have been two recent deaths of writers who did very different things in their work and that I encountered at two very ...

Frederick Forsyth, the British author of 'The Day of the Jackal' and other thrillers, has died after a brief illness. He has a final book coming in August.

The double of the French wartime leader Charles de Gaulle will be part of Armed Forces Day celebrations in Ellesmere - the town where he stayed during the early years of the Second World War.

Cry Of The Innocent, based on a Forsyth story, was adapted for a television film. It was directed by Michael O'Herlihy and starred Rod Taylor as an American insurance executive, who seeks revenge for ...

A quiet pub, a glass of red wine and a crossword: tokens of a complex man whose thrilling stories and humble nature left an ...

Frederick Forsyth, author of "The Day of the Jackal," dies at 86, leaving behind a legacy of bestselling thrillers.

He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962, which provided inspiration ... “The zeitgeist was different,” he told the BBC. “The Cold War was very much on.” He ...

He was a storyteller who made me feel the pulse of history, the stakes of human ambition, and the thrill of a well-told tale.

During Trump’s first term, after all, the United States gave Israel and Netanyahu almost everything they asked for. But this time, Trump is bucking the prime minister, and Netanyahu and his supporters ...

Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the ...

The French president’s proposal to recognise Palestine at a UN conference in June was fundamentally flawed by its desire to ...