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Helicopter Wars: Combat Helicopter History, Tactics and the Pilots Who Fly Them
The helicopter changed warfare more than any single 20th-century weapon system except the atomic bomb. Before Vietnam, ground forces moved…
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Car SOS: How a Two-Person Crew Brings Dead Classic Cars Back to Life
Most television about cars is either supercar pornography (one company you’ve never heard of, a hypercar you’ll never see, a…
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The Story of God with Morgan Freeman: Six Faiths, One Set of Questions
Morgan Freeman has the voice. That’s the obvious thing. The less obvious thing is that he also has the curiosity.…
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Inside the Vietnam War: An Honest Look at the Long American Decade
The American war in Vietnam ran for ten years and three months and killed somewhere between 1.3 and 3.4 million…
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Churchill’s German Army: Operation Unthinkable and the WWIII That Almost Was
By the spring of 1945 the war in Europe was effectively over. Berlin was about to fall. The German army…
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Treasure on the Thames: The Lucky Mudlarkers Who Read London’s River
The River Thames runs 346 kilometres from a Cotswold spring to the Greater London estuary, and for most of the…
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The Human Family Tree: Our Shared DNA Across Continents
If you trace the genetic ancestry of every human alive today, every single line converges in eastern Africa, somewhere between…
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Megastructures: Burj Khalifa, Three Gorges Dam and More
Modern infrastructure has reached a scale that genuinely surpasses anything earlier civilisations attempted. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze…
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Megafactories: Inside the World’s Biggest Production Plants
Some of the most impressive feats of contemporary engineering happen inside the buildings nobody visits. The factory that produces every…
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Twin Biology and Genetics Explained: What Twin Studies Tell Us
Twin biology is one of the more counter-intuitive corners of human genetics. Identical twins share 100% of their DNA but…
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