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By the time Jack Pulman died at the age of 53 in 1979 he was already a television legend. I, Claudius had without any question the greatest cast ever assembled for a TV production before or since, and John Hurt's Caligula is as terrifying today as he ever was. All the same Graves...

Briefly: With the 'affair of the Placards', a seemingly powerless group without appreciable assets transformed France. Unfortunately, it appears the author, Antoine Marcourt, didn't really understand what he was doing and by the time the consequences were fully apparent a savage civil war had...

The world is bored with Kennedys, and the lustre once lent the name by the charismatic John Fitzgerald-Kennedy has long been tarnished. Only a few years ago Bertie Kennedy metaphorically ran the Irish economy into a wall, and Ted Kennedy's hopes nosedived after he literally ran off a bridge at...

After the reduction of the Kiev pocket, AG South cmdr Von Rundstedt favoured halting for the winter to rebuild instead of pushing on with the attempt to capture Moscow. The line was straight at this point, and the German units were not nearly as worn down as they would become by the following...