In 1920 a journalist walked nearly 4,500 kilometres across Australia following the Trans Australian Railway. The following year he attempted something even bigger: walking around the entire continent.

On 03rd March, 1934, the most famous fugitive in America walked calmly out of a jail that had been publicly declared escape proof. He locked the guards in their own cells, secured real machine guns, and drove away in the sheriff’s car. According to his later claim, he did it with a wooden pistol. The escape of John Dillinger from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, was more than an audacious stunt. It marked a turning point in the national manhunt that followed, res

On 16th April, 1947, a wooden gallows stood in the shadow of the crematorium at Auschwitz I. A small group of witnesses, including former prisoners, gathered quietly. The man led forward had once commanded this camp. He had lived in a villa within sight of the chimneys. His children had played in a garden where ash sometimes fell from the sky. His name was Rudolf Höss. The story of Höss is not only a biography of a war criminal. It is a study in how ideology, bureaucracy, obe