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Chasing the Chimney Sweep: A joyride around the original Tour de France of 1903
It was the original Tour de France that started it all off. Conceived by a cycling-mad newspaper editor as a stunt to save his paper, the Tour of 1903 was a brutally tough event of …
Coin of the Kingdom: The new rulers of France and England fight for supremacy in the early years of the twelfth century
It is 1100, a time when the Normans are tightening an iron grip on England and France is riven by squabbling factions. Henry, one of the sons of William the Conqueror, is about to …
Awake All Hours: The Story of the New Zealand Junior Doctors' Rebellion of 1985
For most of the 20th century New Zealand's junior doctors, as in most other Western countries, had toiled almost endless hours in hospitals with minimal pay. The consequences of …
The Great Crash
This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that …