On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..
Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..
The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the rai..
In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..
Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..
Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..
On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..
Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..
In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..
All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..
Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving boy. Then one morning he had an irresistible urge to shake ..
Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..
Johnny Johnson is 92 years old and one of very few men who can recall first-hand the most daring and..
There are almost one billion guns across the globe today. There are 12 billion bullets produced ever..