NEW FROM THE MAKERS OF BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

World Histor ie s

FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON OUR GLOBAL PAST

Have empires ever been a force for good?

The Islamic Enlightenment

The ideas that shaped today’s

Middle East

AFRICA’S COLD WAR The battle to control a continent

“I spent ten years with the rebels” On the ground in El Salvador’s civil war

CRETE’S FANTASTIC BEASTS Reagan’s nuclear dilemma When Star Wars threatened global peace

A HISTORY OF FAKE NEWS How we can combat ‘alternative facts’

CHINA’S FIGHT

FOR DIGNITY

THE REAL WILD WEST Life on America’s frontier

ISSUE 3 APR/MAY 2017

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