Historie, dějiny, military

In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. On the first, she ventured further south than any...

Throughout the Second World War, thousands found themselves cut off behind the lines in Nazi-occupied Europe - soldiers were left stranded on beaches after the chaotic...

Their name is byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen, the Medici built their fortune on banking. Tim Parks tells the...

Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words- the story of his parents' lives. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods -...

Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken? Did a Welsh prince discover America centuries before Columbus? What happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste? With its...

Otto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the twentieth century. It was Otto who found his daughter Anne's diaries after her death and it was his determination that...

The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off,...