Product Description: It was Halloween 1938 when twenty-three year-old Orson Welles fooled America into thinking it had been invaded by aliens. The Mercury Theatre on the Air production of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the most talked-about radio broadcasts in history...read more

Product Description: In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages of national newspapers. Affray had gone to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel...read more

Product Description: The story of how William F. Cody, army scout, "Indian fighter," stagecoach driver, and buffalo hunter, became an acting sensation with his Wild West show, playing to millions of people in America and Europe for more than 30 years...read more

Illuminating the extraordinary life of the American explorer who found Dr. David Livingstone, the author highlights Stanley's adventures as a soldier fighting for both Union and Confederate armies, a seaman, and a journalist during and after the American Civil War.