A dwarf, a drag queen and a defender of a Siberian tribe - you might not be forgiven for thinking this is a seedy bar joke! These are the protagonists in two of our tales of elsewhere, of Nazi Germany and Tsarist-Soviet Russia, and the scars they bear from wars that bleed into the present. Read more below:

• A Woman’s War Against Progress by Allan Cameron

• Giselle and Mr Memphis by Jerry Simcock

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