In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse, wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines, was slipped into the ...

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It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the ...

JESSICA WEST and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp are freelance translators with a shared love of history; A History of the World With the Women Put Back In is the third book they’ve co-translated from German.

Author Simon Farquhar dives into the grisly world of true crime and asks, why is murder so common at Christmas?

Simon Farquhar’s new book, A Deafening Silence: Forgotten British Murders, led him down dark roads as he trudged the wintry countryside trying to understand forgotten tragedies and talking to those ...

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ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

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RUTH HERMAN has a career in PR and lecturing at university level. Now retired, she enjoys writing to make history engaging and accessible to the general reader. Her first book, The Incredibly Biased ...

'The Finest Feat of Arms' ...