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Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

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It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994 where five members of a..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

In this follow-up to the bestselling CLANLANDS Sam and Graham document their journey across New Zeal..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

David Berridge returns with more stories from his time as a prison officer at HMP Parkhurst giving a..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

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Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary says Dr Da..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her barren backyard ..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

Charlie Hedges is a pioneer in the field of missing persons over a career spanning nearly four decad..

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In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

Bustling with rich detail historical vignettes and surprising wares this is the story of Britain's b..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

On Saturday 15th April 1989 Jenni Hicks her husband Trevor and their two daughters Sarah and Vicki w..

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Asteroids killer sharks nuclear bombs viruses deadly robots climate change the apocalypse - why is H..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..

Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

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In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House an elegant mansion wit..

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life from her childhood in Stamps Arkansas to her world travels as a be..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..

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Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met..

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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

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Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

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When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..