From the Book - 1st US ed.
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
The few : the Royal Air Force Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
The abolition of slavery in the British empire : Sharp, Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Buxton
Tatanka Iyotake : Sitting Bull
Thomas Paine and the Rights of man
The women of SOE : setting Europe ablaze
Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer
Horatio Nelson : the immortal memory
Billy Bishop : the courage of the early morning
Bletchley Park and the first computers
William Bligh's boat boyage
Apollo 11 : landing on the Moon
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Alcock and Brown : transatlantic, non-stop
Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake
Harry Houdini : escapologist
