CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2019

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22 The brutal Conqueror Marc Morris asks if William I’s infamous Harrying of the North should be labelled a genocide

28 Escape from East Berlin Helena Merriman describes an audacious bid to tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall to freedom in the west

37 The power of Beowulf Eleanor Parker answers the key questions on the Anglo-Saxon epic that inspired The Lord of the Rings

43 Reuniting Britain Kate Loveman chronicles Charles II’s attempts to heal a divided nation in the wake of the Civil War

50 Brothers at war Thomas Penn on the bitter disputes between Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence and the future Richard III

61 Falklands feelgood factor Victory in the South Atlantic in 1982 gave Britons a huge psychological boost, argues Dominic Sandbrook

50 The sibling rivalry that rocked England during the Wars of the Roses

22 Was William the Conqueror a war criminal?

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Well-wishers watch HMS Hermes depart Portsmouth for the Falkland Islands, 5 April 1982

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