Excerpts

Here you can find excerpts from upcoming history books by world class writers and historians.

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Eavesdropping on the Enemy

Dr Helen Fry on the Man Who Saved MI6 during World War 1

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The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'

Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne

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The Ruin of All Witches

Before Salem there was Springfield. Malcolm Gaskill reveals the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation

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The Shipwreck of HMS Gloucester in 1682

'Ship Detective' Nigel Pickford unravels a naval disaster during the Restoration

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An Historical Tour To Thebes in Egypt

Garry J. Shaw introduces us to the elaborate temples of the Ancient Egyptians, and their close association with myth and legend

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The Hidden History of Fabric

Victoria Finlay reveals the hidden history of the material world

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The History of How We See

Susan Denham Wade charts the evolution of the camera