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Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
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The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece.
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Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of a
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