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By 1937, Hitler’s ever-growing ambitions were driving Europe to the brink of war. Ever restless, he
“No one can doubt that this world will one day be the scene of dreadful struggles for existence on t
“We did not lose the war because our artillery gave out, but because the weapons of our mind didn’t
“Hitler had entered Röhm’s bedroom alone with a whip in his hand. Behind him had stood two detective
A Pope of great renown once reigned during chaotic years for the medieval Church: she was an extraor
“The Church was anxious to draw the attention of its members away from the old pagan feast days, and
On the 8th of June 1948, the HMT Windrush sailed from Kingston with almost 500 migrants on board, de
In 1854, the twenty-five year old aristocrat Roger Tichborne, heir to an impressive fortune, died in
The Battle for Italy in 1943 proved to be one of the bloodiest and most brutal episodes of the Secon
In this landmark edition of The Rest is History, Dominic and Tom reveal the astonishing solution to
“We can’t accept very comfortably that two nobodies, two nothings - Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby
“Jack, you son of a bitch, don’t do it!”Just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, in the f
It’s 12:31pm on Friday 22nd November 1963, and in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy lies slum
“It wouldn't be very difficult to kill the president of the United States, you just have to be in a
By the late 1950s, John F. Kennedy was a rich and handsome Democratic senator with a beautiful wife
“There were a lot of people who wanted Kennedy dead, a lot of powerful people. There are secrets sti
