The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first..

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA story at once extremely strange and en..

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

In the summer of 1889 young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poi..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

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

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys two princes walking b..

Picking up from where his first memoir left off Dr Tom is back with more of his gloriously eccentric..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

Blood Iron and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world ..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies packed his notepad and set off in search of B..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

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