Overview :On a fog-choked night in July 1956, two modern ships met in the North Atlantic. One would survive. One would not.The collision between the I... Read More
Overview :Boston hides its secrets in plain sight-behind glass towers, under neon rain, and inside vaults no one is supposed to touch. But one crew da... Read More
Overview :For three decades Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq through fear, patronage and war. Rising from a violent childhood in a dusty village near Tikrit,... Read More
Overview :In June 1629, the Dutch East India Company flagship Batavia struck a hidden reef off the west coast of Australia and tore herself open on th... Read More
Overview :Oliver Cromwell was never supposed to matter. A minor country squire from Huntingdon, he stumbled into Parliament in 1640 with no great name... Read More
Overview :From powder boy at the Nile to the recalled first Governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh's life ran along the hard edges of the British... Read More
Overview :He saved his country from defeat - and then his country voted him out.Winston Churchill is immortalised as the bulldog of 1940: the man of D... Read More
Overview :On 20 December 1987, a routine overnight ferry crossing in the Philippines became the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.More ... Read More
Overview :On 15 June 1904, a church outing in New York City turned into one of the deadliest disasters in American history.More than a thousand women ... Read More
Overview :A luxury ocean liner becomes an inferno.Passengers wait for direction.Command weakens.Escape turns into survival.In September 1934, the SS M... Read More
Overview :The President's Burden: Harry S. Truman and the Courage to Limit War follows the blunt Missourian from the Berlin Airlift to the Korean armi... Read More