I have always found the war Octavian fought against Antony and Cleopatra hard to understand. How did Antony find himself losing without even fighting a proper battle given all his experience as a general and commanding an army equal to or stronger than his opponent's? Barry Strauss explains the campaign brilliantly.
You can find his book The War that made the Roman Empire here. Highly recommended.
Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
Talking movies with Freddie deBoer and Abe Callard (Mad Max, OUTIH, Ghostbusters etc)
Julian Sancton on the ill fated voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic in 1898
When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
Amazon the behemoth
Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
Bean on battleships (and much else besides)
David Goodhart on Head, Hand and Heart and the Road to Somewhere
The Siege of Gondor - Bret Devereaux rates the Witch King - A Bad Man, a Good General
The Knights of St John against the Turks (and the sheer bloody horror of Lepanto)
Bret Devereaux cancels Saruman. (Helms Deep as ancient military history)
Tom Holland scores 300
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