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Cover SPIES, SADISTS AND SORCERERS Contents Quote About the author 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? Comments First Published... Also available from Crux Publishing A Short History of the World The Normans Copyright
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