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And the Rest Is History takes listeners on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won’t find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of “fake news” actually began in America, and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists.

The Rest Is Crime is a true crime and history podcast about the murders, conspiracies, and betrayals history usually leaves out.History remembers victories, emperors, and turning points. This podcast focuses on everything else—the crimes, cover-ups, scandals, and acts of violence that quietly shaped civilizations.Each episode uncovers a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and betrayals from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, China, and beyond. These are not legends or rumors—they are ...

Britain has been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. To say that it's high time it was defined by its women is a severe understatement. Jenni Murray draws together the lives of 21 women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history. In lively prose Murray reinvigorates the stories behind the names we all know and reveals the fascinating tales behind those less familiar.