At the height of Prohibition, a man walked up to his wife in a Cincinnati park. He pulled a pearl-handled gun and pulled the trigger. She would die soon after. The murder of Imogene Remus by her husband George became a sensation because Geroge Remus was possibly the most successful bootlegger in American history. In Karen Abbott’s fantastic new look at the case, we meet George and Imogene and the betrayal that led to the day shots rang out in Eden Park.
Read MoreD-Day can tend to be remembered by the beaches, the bocage and the Tigers. In his new history of the Normandy campaign, James Holland looks at the myths of the campaign and reminds us that without the incredible logistics machine supporting the tip of the spear, the liberation would never have gotten very far inland at all.
Read MoreIn Marina Amaral and Dan Jones’ The Colour of Time, we have two historians bringing the colour back to our history, one which we have become so used to seeing in monochrome. The subtle and powerful marriage of the images and text brings an excitement to each turn of the page that makes this a very special book.
Read MoreTwo hundred years ago, the single most decicive battle of an age of war was fought. Three armies fought three battles over fours days that would shape Europe, and the world, for the next 100 years. The next time British and Prussian troops would meet in Belgium, they would not be saving Europe, but tearing it apart. The Battle of Waterloo is possibly the most famous battle in history. It has occupied a place in British popular culture, popular history and the British psyche that is rather odd, the British named train stations after it. It's odd to think that a train station is named after a few square miles of farmland, near hamlet in the rolling Belgian countryside where 200,000 men crammed onto a tiny battlefield and slaughtered each other.
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