Otto von Bismarck: life of the week

The United States often presents its birth as a straightforward struggle for liberty – but reality was far more messy. In this first episode of HistoryExtra's four-part series on the American Revolutionary War, Elinor Evans is joined by Adam IP Smith to explore the colonies befor ...  Show more

Why did Protestant missionaries travel the globe across the course of centuries, only to convert remarkably few people? Alec Ryrie – author of new book The World’s Reformation – tells Elinor Evans about the neglected global history of early Protestant missions, how preachers trav ...  Show more

Who was the Russian spy working under Oppenheimer to build the atomic bomb? Why was it so dangerous to be a communist in Nazi Germany? And how did a young science prodigy become one of the most notorious spies in history? Klaus Fuchs was born into a left-wing family at the begin ...  Show more

Faites un don et recevez un cadeau : http://don.storiavoce.com/ [Rediffusion] Symbole de la capitulation des démocraties française et britannique face à la montée du totalitarisme allemand, les accords de Munich, signés en septembre 1938, scellent le sort de l’Europe à la veille ...  Show more

Le 4 février 1945, sur les bords de la mer Noire, trois hommes se préparent à changer le cours de l'histoire. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill et Joseph Staline se retrouvent à Yalta pour des négociations cruciales. Quelques mois plus tard, ils se réunissent à nouveau à Pots ...  Show more

On 17th September 1938, in Munich, one of the most extraordinary meetings in history took place. Neville Chamberlain launched an extraordinary and unprecedented diplomatic coup. Boarding a plane, he set off to meet Adolf Hitler in a desperate attempt to prevent war over Czechoslo ...  Show more