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SPIES, SADISTS AND SORCERERS
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Foreword
THE ANCIENT WORLD
1. Flavius Josephus, the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and two millennia of bloodshed in the Middle East
2. Theodosius I¬: the forgotten man who turned Christianity into a global religion
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
3. Rome was not civilized and the ‘Dark Ages’ were not dark
4. The Vikings were no worse than the Anglo-Saxons
5. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, was a Roman Catholic
6. King Harold’s England was multicultural and decidedly European
7. The Battle of Hastings (1066) wasn’t such a big deal
8. The cult of Magna Carta is historical nonsense: Oliver Cromwell called it ‘Magna Farta’
9. The Magna Carta barons were guilty of treason
10. Save the Statute of Marlborough (1267): our oldest law
11. Medieval cathedrals are bursting with colour again
12. Richard the Lionheart and Saladin: chivalry and atrocities
13. Saladin and the fateful battle of Hattin (1187): lessons for the modern Middle East
14. Forget the Da Vinci Code: this is the real mystery of the Knights Templar
15. A stain on history: the burning of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
16. The Turin Shroud is one of the greatest medieval artworks ever created
17. Regicide and ambition: Richard III and the death of the ‘princes’ in the Tower
18. Reburying Richard III: is it the right body?
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
19. Medieval al-Andalus: tolerance and totalitarianism
20. Savonarola and Mary Queen of Scots: the bloody underside of the ‘civilized’ Renaissance
21. Columbus, greed, slavery, and genocide: what really happened to the American Indians
22. How the Tudor spin machine hid the brutal truth about the English Reformation
23. Thomas Cromwell was the Islamic State of his day
24. How Protestantism fuelled the deadly witch craze
25. Guy Fawkes. Islamists, converts, and terrorism: some things never change
26. New Year’s Day is too soon after Christmas. Let’s move it back to its proper place—in March
THE VICTORIAN WORLD
27. Haters back off. Lord Elgin was a hero who saved the marbles for the world
28. Greece knows it has no legal right to the Elgin Marbles: that’s why it won’t sue the UK
29. Did Moses read hieroglyphics? The race to translate the Rosetta Stone
30. Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace: coding pioneer a century before Alan Turing
WORLD WAR ONE
31. Fritz Haber: the horror story of the man who invented poison gas
32. When Churchill got it very wrong: Gallipoli
WORLD WAR TWO
33. Agent Garbo: the amazing Spanish spy who took on Hitler and saved D-Day
34. Noor Inayat Khan: a gutsy British Second World War hero, a woman, and a Muslim
35. Dresden was a civilian town with no military significance: why did we burn its people?
THE MODERN WORLD
36. The dark, deep roots of Britain’s fascination with witchcraft
37. How German is the Queen?
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