Diana Preston

When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion....

In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war....

On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives....

In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought....

Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, the Taj Mahal's flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled all who have seen it....

The story of the worlds best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time....

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of a routine crossing from New York to Liverpool, England, RMS Lusitania...

Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony....

Convinced in 1838 that Britain's invaluable empire in India was threatened by Russia, Persia, and Afghan tribes, the British government ordered its Army of the Indus into Afghanistan to oust from power the independent-minded king....

Civil war broke out in Rome, and Mark Antony was given control over the East. Cleopatra made her entry at dusk on a scented, candle-lit barge: and so began one of the greatest love stories of all time....