Amazing full-colour graphics and photographs throughout Povides key links to history curriculum A dynamic and flexible approach to providing information encourages learning by stealth Designed to appeal to reluctant and able readers alike with a range of high interest information and amazing facts Produced in association with the National Archives and full of original documentation and imagery

Born in the USA, raised in the UK and now resident in Europe, Alex Stewart has been a full-time writer for almost 25 years, and has written over 150 history titles for both adults and children. A visiting lecturer at the Institut Catholique d'Etudes Superieur (ICES, La Roche sur Yon, France), Alex also teaches Creative and Professional Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University, England. Alex, whose pastimes and interests include drama, music, sport and travel, lives near Nantes and works in a large stone hut at the bottom of his garden.