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1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

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Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

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

Dublin November 1856. George Little the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus is found de..

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Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

At 75 Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a..

Dave Aston had been a soldier a member of the elite British SAS. Until that final mission into bandi..

Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington could easily have..

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