This book celebrates some of history’s greatest minds, whose intelligence and perseverance has helped shape the modern world. They are by no means the only great inventors in history, but within these pages you’ll meet some of the most iconic...
The American Civil War (1861-1865) was predominantly an infantryman's war. Artillery had improved substantially since 1815 and guns could inflict murderous losses if they had a clear field of fire. But most Civil War battlefields were characterised...