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Biographics: History One Life at a Time

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Biographics: History One Life at a Time

233 - Nancy Wake - The White Mouse Was The Gestapos Most Wanted

Nancy Wake was beautiful, smart Australian woman living in France, and at first glance, she...

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232 - Alexis St Martin - A Hole in the Stomach

Being shot directly in the stomach isn’t generally conducive to living- a fact that makes the...

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231 - General Heinz Guderian - The Father of the Blitzkrieg

In the first two years of World War II the Allies were stunned by the speed, coordination and...

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230 - Alexander Graham Bell - A Life of Innovation and Controversy

His career was not without controversy, though. He had to face almost six hundred lawsuits in his...

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229 - Archimedes - The Greatest Mind in Ancient History

Archimedes was the ancient Greek inventor and mathematician who is remembered for being one of...

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228 - Sir Charles Kingsford Smith - A Pioneer of Flight

During the late 19th century, a German man named Otto Lilienthal achieved some of the first...

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227 - Joaquin Murrieta - The Real Zorro

Nearly everyone has grown up hearing the stories of the masked vigilante named Zorro. He was...

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226 - Mad Jack Churchill - A Life Too Unbelievable For Fiction

"Mad Jack" was born John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill on September 16, 1906, in Surrey,...

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225 - Neville Chamberlain and the Politics of Appeasement

It’s the 1st of October, 1938. Heston airport, just outside London. A man steps out of a...

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224 - Charlemagne - The Father of Europe

Three centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, most of Western Europe was divided into small...

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223 - Vidkun Quisling - The Man Who Sold his Country to the Third Reich.mp3

A peaceful, unnamed town is taken over by an unnamed Army. The invaders arrive by surprise, aided...

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222 - Sigmund Freud - The Father of Psychoanalysis

At the dawn of the 20th Century, one young doctor in Vienna developed a theory that would change...

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221 - Spartacus - The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble

According to legend, Spartacus’s wife walked in on her sleeping husband one night to find that a...

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220 - Walt Disney - Architect of Dreams

Walt Disney once famously said that that laughter is America’s greatest export. It’s not. It’s...

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219 - William Magear Boss Tweed - The Tiger of Tammany

New York City. The Big Apple. It isn't the capital of the United States, but it's still the...

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218 - Ivan the Terrible - The First Stalin

He’s a man known to history literally as ‘the Terrible’. Ivan IV was the first tsar of Russia,...

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217 - Robert Hanssen - The FBI Mole who Spied for the KGB

Today’s protagonist, Robert Hanssen, was an FBI agent who served his country for 20 years. At the...

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216 - Copernicus - A Revolution of Astronomical Proportions

It is very rare that a book can come out and single-handedly change humanity’s understanding of...

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215 - John E. Douglas - Mindhunter

The world has an eerie fascination with serial killers. Whether it's hearing tales of the men who...

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214 - Francisco Franco - The Rise of the Generalisimo

Today’s protagonist is the Generalisimo Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 with...

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