Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his ‘prose-tales’ – often horror melodramas such as ‘The Fall...

Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she ‘the people’s princess’, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative,...

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka dive-bombers devastated Warsaw and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Žabiñski began to fight their...