Overview :In January 1906, the SS Valencia left San Francisco on what should have been a routine coastal voyage to Victoria and Seattle. She was not a... Read More
Overview :Before Titanic, White Star had already known catastrophe.In 1873, RMS Atlantic left Liverpool on a transatlantic voyage to North America. Sh... Read More
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 :On 20 December 1987, a routine overnight ferry crossing in the Philippines became the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.More ... 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 :Australia was not simply born. It was argued into being.For most of the nineteenth century, the Australian colonies lived beside one another... 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 :He is remembered for mutiny, conflict, and command. But William Bligh's most explosive struggle came not on the Bounty, but in colonial Aust... Read More
Overview :Woodrow Wilson entered the White House as a scholar-president, reformer, and moral visionary. He reshaped American government, led the Unite... Read More
Overview :The Making of Australia tells the story of a nation too large to be reduced to either shame or myth.Australia did not begin in 1788. The con... 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 :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 :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 :On 6 March 1987, the Herald of Free Enterprise left Zeebrugge bound for Dover. Minutes later, the ferry capsized in shallow water. The cause... Read More
Overview :Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is remembered as the young French aristocrat who crossed the Atlantic to fight for American indepen... 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 :The convicts were sent away as Britain's problem. They became part of Australia's foundation.The Convict Nation tells the story of the trans... Read More
Overview :Edmund Burke was one of the most powerful political minds of the Georgian age.He did not rule as a king, command armies, or dominate governm... Read More
Overview :He came to profit from war.He became the man who saved over 1,100 lives.Oskar Schindler was not supposed to be a hero. A businessman, opport... Read More
Overview :Ned Kelly is Australia's most iconic outlaw.A man who became more than a criminal.A figure who became a legend.But behind the iron mask lies... Read More