"Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-u…
Contains more than ninety conspiracies theories alphabetically-arranged, including the assassination of JFK, 9/11, the framing of Julian Assange, and more.
In 1930, the editor of "Everyman" magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period. It is told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the…
From Julius Caesar's arrival in 55bc to the dawn of the third millennium, here are 300 accounts of exciting and important moments from first hand sources. Featuring snapshots of wartime, political and social unrest, natural disasters, and great individual achievements, plus vign…
