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On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall.
Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had ...
Our competitive edge has eroded in every domain of warfare - air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace,General Mattis said. And it is continually eroding. American ...
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating ...
'God sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus. From there ...
A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion ...
A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous ...
In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 times greater ...
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies
During the Crusades, the Western and ...
'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week
'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and ...
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, the Cunard steamship Carpathia receives a distress call from the new White Star liner Titanic. Captain Arthur ...
It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert ...
From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a ...
On May 8 1945, forty-six-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, hed ...
