When his cousin Henry Bolingbroke whom he had sent into exile as a possible rival in 1398, returned to lead an army against him, he received widespread support. Richard surrendered to him, on the promise that his life be spared. Bolingbroke agreed and became King Henry IV. The deposed former king was imprisoned in the Tower of London and later moved to Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire. When Henry discovered Richard and accomplices were plotting Richard’s return to the throne, he had him murdered. How this was done remains a mystery. One rumour suggests that Richard was deliberately starved to death, although this does seem an unlikely fate for someone who needed to be dispatched with a degree of urgency. He was thirty-three and had been king for twenty-three years.

  Both Henry IV and Richard II are the subjects of plays by William Shakespeare. Preacher John Ball’s evocative couplet When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? remains familiar to many and still strikes a chord with anyone concerned with inequalities in the world.

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  It is July 1945, Hitler’s Third Reich has fallen, and Berlin is in ruins. The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows of the wreckage as Otto and his friends find themselves caught between invading armies, ruthless rival gangs and a strange Nazi war criminal who stalks them...

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  Harry Friedman is the gunner of the Macey May, an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Anglia. The Second World War is raging and the Nazis have swept over Europe. The crews of every Flying Fortress face terrible odds on their bombing missions. To make it through alive, Harry will need luck on his side and courage…

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  Fifteen-year-old Misha’s life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin’s inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the glorious new Russia quickly surface. Then, as German troops advance on Moscow, the atmosphere in the Kremlin ignites. Misha finds himself at the heart of a battle against the mighty state...

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  The destinies of a German Storm Trooper, an American airman and a British Tommy converge on the final day of a global conflict. War becomes incredibly personal as nationality and geography cease to matter to each of these teenagers on the Western Front, and friendship becomes the defining aspect of their encounter. But who will live and who will die before the end of the day?

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  Alex lives in East Berlin. The cold war is raging and he and his family are forbidden to leave. But the longer he stays the more danger he is in. His parents start to realise that leaving the East may be the only option left to them, but getting across the Wall is practically impossible. And even if Alex and his family make it to the other side, will they be able to escape the reach of the Stasi?

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  When Peter’s parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw. Then German soldiers take him away to be measured and assessed. They decide that Peter valuable: with his blond hair, blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler-Jugend poster. Someone important will want to adopt him. But Peter doesn’t want to be a Nazi, and so he is going to take a very dangerous risk...

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