A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip.

A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip.

History remembers the Easter Rising as Irish rebel against English soldier, but the truth is more complicated. Thousands of British Army soldiers in the Rising were Irishmen. Forty-one Irishmen in the British Army died in action, 106 were wounded. These men became a forgotten part of their country's history.

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion

Just as the Pentagon Papers exposed our government's lies about Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers reveals how three successive presidents and their military commanders systematically deceived the public about the longest war in American history, prolonging it year after year because they didn't want to admit defeat.

A revised and updated edition of the landmark book about the miraculous continent by the finest living Africa correspondent