This cover image released by Minotaur shows "The Fifth Column," a novel by Andrew Gross. (Minotaur via AP) "The Fifth Column" (Minotaur), by Andrew Gross New York in 1939 is a scary place, with ...

In the 1930s, a minor British novelist started writing a new book, which was not a novel. Instead, William Gerhardie proposed a theory of history he called “God’s Fifth Column,” which was also his ...

The term “fifth column” has its origin in the ’30s Spanish Civil War, when the military decided to overthrow the Madrid government. With four columns of troops advancing on the capital, their general ...

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This column usually handicaps the ongoing struggle for political control in the United States between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. The short story is that the center-right ...