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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives on board the most famous ship in history. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the seemingly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg, sustaining a 300-feet gash as...

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal‘s College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it...

Dive into a captivating collection of historical tales where commoners don the guise of royalty and kings slip into the shoes of the everyday. Discover the intriguing story of a Dutch merchant who sought a kiss from the disguised wife of Peter the Great, and unravel the mystery surrounding a farmers daughter born in 1750 in England, whose fame spread far and wide, even as rumors of her death were met with disbelief. Explore early legends of vampires and ghosts, and uncover the answers to these tales and more within this fascinating book. (Summary by mleigh)

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