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Imagine having dinner with the notorious Attila the Hun. Applauding a production of Hamlet starring the legendary Garrick. This fascinating collection of over 300 "eyewitness accounts" reveals history as it has never been seen before--personal, vivid, compelling and immediate. Sure to be a classic, this is the quintessential browsing book for history buffs. - from Amzon

Plague in Athens, 430 BC / Thucydides --
The Greeks march to the sea, 401 BC / Xenophon --
The death of Socrates, 399 BC / Plato --
Caesar invades Britain, 55 BC / Julius Caesar --
Rome burns, AD 64 / Tacitus --
The siege of Jerusalem, AD 70 / Josephus --
The eruption of Vesuvius, 24 August, AD 79 / Pliny the Younger --
The deification of the Emperor Septimius Severus, AD 211 / Herodian --
Dinner with Attila the Hun, c. AD 450 / Priscus --
A Viking funeral, AD 922 / Ibn Fadlan --
The green children, c. 1150 / William of Newburgh --
The murder of Thomas Becket, 29 December 1170 / Edward Grim --
Richard I massacres prisoners after taking Acre, 2-10 August 1191 / Behâ-ed-Din --
Kublai Khan's park, c. 1275 / Marco Polo --
Mishaps in childhood, 1301-37 / Calendar of coroner's rolls --
The battle of Crécy, 26 September 1346 / Sir John Froissart --
The Black Death, 1348 / Henry Knighton --
Women ape men, 1348 / Henry Knighton --
The capture of Guines, January 1352 / Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbrook --
False mutes, October 1380 / City of London letter-books --
The Peasants' Revolt, May-June 1381 / Sir John Froissart --
The battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415 / Jehan de Wavrin --
Norwegian fisherfolk, 1432 / Cristoforo Fioravanti --
The New World, January-February 1502 / Amerigo Vespucci --
A salamander, 1505 / Benvenuto Cellini --
Spanish atrocities in the West Indies, c. 1513-20 / Bartolomé de Las Casas --
The performing ass, Cairo, 1516 / John Leo --
Human sacrifice among the Aztecs, c. 1520 / José de Acosta --
The Inca's golden garden, c. 1530 / Garcilaso de la Vega --
The progress of the English Reformation, 1537-38 / John London [and others] --
With the Spaniards in Paraguay, 1537-40 / Hulderike Schnirdel --
The execution of Archbishop Cranmer, 21 March 1556 / Anon. --
Prisoners of the Inquisition, 1568-75 / Miles Phillips --
The sack of Antwerp by a Spanish army, 4 November 1576 / George Gascoigne --
The arrest of the Catholic priest Edmund Campion and his associates, 17 July 1581 / Anon. --
Some London criminals, 1581 / William Fleetwood --
Babylon in 1583 / John Eldred --
Natural childbirth in India, 1583 / John Huyghen van Linschoten --
Shipwreck off Mozambique, AUgust 1585 / John Huyghen van Linschoten --
A London merchant in Cairo, 1586 / John Sanderson --
The execution of Mary Queen of Scots, 8 February 1586 / Robert Wynkfielde --
The seasons of Russia, 1589 / Giles Fletcher --
The last fight of the Revenge, 13 September 1591 / John Huyghen van Linschoten --
Trapped in the Arctic ice, 1596 / Gerrit de Veer --
A Jesuit is tortured in the Tower, 14-15 April 1597 / John Gerard --
A private audience with Elizabeth I, 8 December 1597 / André Hurault --
English merchants in Java, c. 1602 / Edmund Scot --
The effects of Elizabethan policy in Ireland, 1602 / Fynes Moryson --
Newfoundland mermaid, 1610 / Richard Whitbourne --
Whirling Dervishes, 1613 / Thomas Coryate --
The magnificence of the Great Mogul, 1616-17 / Sir Thomas Roe --
The Great Mogul : his cruelty, 1618 / Edward Terry --
The murder of the Duke of Buckingham, 23 August 1620 / Sir Dudley Carleton --
Landing in New England, November 1620 / William Bradford --
Oliver Cromwell writes to his brother-in-law after the battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644 / Oliver Cromwell --
Circumcision : Rome, 16 January 1645 / John Evelyn --
Suttee, c. 1650 / Jean-Baptiste Tavernier --
George Fox visits Litchfield, 1651 / George Fox --
Religious observances in Dunkirk, 1662 / John Greenhalgh --
The fire of London, 2 September 1666 / Samuel Pepys --
The Great Frost, January 1684 / John Evelyn --
The English love of fighting, 1695 / Mission de Valbourg --
Conditions of life aboard the French galleys, 1703-4 / John Bion --
The battle of Schallenberg, 2 July 1704 / M. de la Colonie --
Robinson Crusoe found, 2 February 1709 / Woodes Rogers --
Bull-baiting : London, 1710 / Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach --
Turkish bath : Adrainople, 1 April 1717 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --
Albatross shot, 1 October 1719 / George Shelvocke --
Solar eclipse, 10 May 1724 / William Stukeley --
Pantomimes and gladiators, February 1728 / César de Saussure --
The Princess of Wales is delivered of a daughter, 31 July 1737 / Lord Hervey --
Crossing the Alps, November 1739 / Thomas Gray --
Scurvy, 1741 / Richard Walker --
John Wesley preaches in Hull, 24 April 1752 / John Wesley --
Kitten overboard, 11 July 1754 / Henry Fielding --
The Black Hole of Calcutta, 21 June 1756 / J.Z. Holwell --
The burial of George II, 13 November 1760 / Horace Walpole --
The King of Ethiopia expresses displeasure, 13 December 1770 / James Bruce --
Dr. Johnson's playfulness, 10 May 1773 / James Boswell --
Christmas Day at New College, Oxford, 1773 / James Woodforde --
Garrick plays Hamlet, September 1775 / Georg Christoph Lichtenberg --
The Gordon riots, 8 June 1780 / George Crabbe --
Ranelagh, 12 June 1782 / Carl Philipp Moritz --
Midshipman Gardner (aged 12) in action against the French, 20 October 1781 / James Anthony Gardner. The first manned flight in England, 15 September 1784 / Vincent Lunardi --
Louis XVI and the French Royal Family, prisoners at the Tuileries, 4 January 1790 / Arthur Young --
Chateaubriand lands in the New World; Chesapeake Bay, 1791 / François-René de Chateaubriand --
Marie-Antoinette at the opera, July 1792 / Grace Elliott --
A trip to Paris, July-August 1792 / Richard Twiss --
The execution of Louis XVI / Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont --
The Revolutionary Tribunal, Paris, October 1793 / J.G. Millingen --
Nelson loses an arm, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, 25 June 1797 / William Hoste --
The battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 / John Nichol --
Beggars, a leech gatherer, and daffodils : the Wordsworths at Grasmere, 1800-1802 / Dorothy Wordsworth --
Nelson turns a blind eye, Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 / William Stewart --
Childsplay in the Lake District, 27 September 1802 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
The morning of Trafalgar, 10 a.m. / Midshipman Badcock --
Trafalgar : Nelson sends the signal "England expects that every man this day will do his duty" : noon, 21 October 1805 / George Brown --
Trafalgar : reception of the signal, 21 October 1805 / Lieutenant Ellis --
The death of Lord Nelson, 21 October 1805 / William Beatty --
Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time, Summer 1808 / B.R. Haydon --
After the battle of Roliça, 17 August 1808 / Rifleman Harris --
The British retreat to Corunna, 1-4 January 1809 / Robert Blakeney --
Taken prisoner at Corunna, 16 January 1809 / Sir Charles Napier --
A mastectomy, 30 September 1811 / Fanny Burney --
Napoleon enters Moscow, 14 September 1812 / Baron Claude-François de Méneval --
Death of a climbing boy, 29 March 1813 / Anon. --
Wounded at Nivelle, 10 November 1813 / Robert Blakeney --
Execution by impalement : Latakia, 1813 / Charles Lewis Meryon --
The retreat before Waterloo, 17 June 1815 / W.B. Ingilby --
Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : dawn with the 7th Hussars / Edward Cotton --
Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : charge of the Scots Greys and 92nd Highlanders, 2-3 p.m. / R. Winchester --
Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : the Royal Horse Artillery repulse enemy cavalry, late afternoon / A.C. Mercer --
Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : Napoleon's last throw--charge of the Imperial Guard, 7 p.m. / H.W. Powell --
Waterloo, 18 June 1815 : the finale / J. Kincaid --
Embalming a patriarch, November 1815 / Charles Lewis Meryon --
Factory conditions, c. 1815 / Elizabeth Bentley --
Prison visiting, 4 March 1817 / Elizabeth Fry --
Peterloo, 16 August 1819 / Samuel Bamford --
Cremation of the poet Shelley, near leghorn, 15 August 1822 / Edward John Trelawny --
Exit George IV, 1830 / Mrs. Arbuthnot --
The opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway, 15 September 1830 / Frances Ann Kemble --
Cholera in Manchester, 1832 / Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth --
Birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, September 1835 / Charles Darwin --
The coronation of Queen Victoria, 29 June 1838 / Charles Greville --
London prostitutes, 1839 / Flora Tristan --
Death by guillotine : Rome, 8 March 1845 / Charles Dickens --
American slavery : sale of slaves, Virginia, December 1846 / Elwood Harvey --
American slavery : punishment of a female slave, New Orleans, c. 1846 / Samuel Gridley Howe --
The Irish potato famine : victims of the Great Hunger, Castlehaven, 22 February 1847 / Elihu Burritt --
Flaubert and the dancing girls : Esna, Egypt, 6 March 1850 / Gustave Flaubert --
Inside the Crystal Palace : the great exhibition, 1851 / Charlotte Brontë --
The Farringdon watercress market, 1851 / Henry Mayhew --
Louis Napoleon's troops subdue Paris, 4 December 1851 / Victor Hugo --
Victoria and Albert in the Highlands, 11 October 1852 / Queen Victoria --The Japanese are introduced to Western technology, March 1854 / Matthew C. Perry --
The battle of Balaclava and the charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854 / William Howard Russell --
The Indian Mutiny : scene of the massacre of British women and children at Cawnpore, 21 July 1857 / Anon. --
The Indian Mutiny : retribution for the massacre, July 1857 / General Havelock --
The Indian Mutiny : household arrangements in besieged Lucknow, 1857 / Adelaide Case --
Single combat in the Caucasus, 1858 / Alexandre Dumas --
Explosion on board Brunel's Great Eastern steamship, 12 September 1859 / George Augustus Sala --
The Times correspondent helps Garibaldi liberate Palermo, 27-31 May 1860 / Nandor Eber --
Derby Day, 28 May 1861 / Hippolyte Taine --
The American Civil War : General Grant besieges Vicksburg, May 1863 / Cleveland herald --
Gettysburg : the Confederate bombardment, 3 July 1863 / Samuel Wilkeson --
The Great March : General Sherman lays waste the South, October 1864-February 1865 / George Nichols --
The Great March : General Sherman's "Bummers," March 1865 / Elias Smith --
The murder of President Lincoln, 14 April 1865 / Walt Whitman --
Americans abroad, 1867 / Mark Twain --
The suppression of the Paris Commune, 23-24 May 1871 / Archibald Forbes. The Paris Commune : the finale, 29 May 1871 / Archibald Forbes --
Stanley finds Livingstone, 10 November 1871 / H.M. Stanley --
The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria, 2 August 1876 / J.A. MacGahan --
An immigrant crosses America, 23 August 1879 / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Paul Gauguin marries : Tahiti, 1892 / Paul Gauguin --
The Graeco-Turkish War : the siege of Prevesa, 18 April 1897 / Richard Harding Davis --
A seaside holiday, Norfolk Coast, August 1897 / W.H. Hudson --
The attack on Atbara, 10 April 1898 / George W. Steevens --
The battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898 / Winston Churchill --
The Spanish-American War : the battle of El Caney, Cuba, 1 July 1898 / James Creelman --
The battle of El Caney : the aftermath, 2 July 1898 / Stephen Crane --
Jumping a train, 20 March 1899 --
The Boer War : the suffering of the civilian population, Mafeking, April-May 1900 / J.E. Neilly --
Queen Victoria's last journey, 1 February 1901 / Cissy, Countess of Denbigh --
The first radio signal across the Atlantic, 12 December 1901 / Guglielmo Marconi --
A roundabout in Montmartre, 4 November 1903 / Arnold Bennett --
Bloody Sunday : St. Petersburg, 22 January 1905 / Father Gapon --
The San Francisco earthquake, 17 April 1906 / Jack London --
The first Channel flight, 25 July 1909 / Louis Blériot --
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, disguised as a lower-class woman, Jane Warton, is forcibly fed in Walton Gaol, Liverpool, 18 January 1910 / Constance Lytton --
The arrest of Dr. Crippen, 31 July 1910 / H.G. Kendall --
The siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911 / Philip Gibbs --
South Polar expedition : Captain Scott's diary, March 1912 / Captain Scott --
The Titanic : a fireman's story, 15 April 1912 / Harry Senior --
The Titanic : the wireless operator's story, 15 April 1912 / Harold Bride --
The Titanic : from a lifeboat, 15 April 1912 / Mrs. D.H. Bishop --
The lemon gardens under cover of winter : Gargnano, Lago di Garda, February 1913 / D.H. Lawrence --
Colombo curry, 11 November 1913 / Anna Buchan --
GBS at his mother's funeral, 22 February 1914 / George Bernard Shaw --
The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 / Borijove Jevtic --
The vulture, July 1914 / Osbert Sitwell --
The German Army marches through Brussels, 21 August 1914 / Richard Harding Davis --
War frenzy in St. Petersburg, August 1914 / Sergyei N. Kurnakov --
Improving morale, 12 September 1914 / E.L. Spears --
A Suffolk farmhand at Gallipoli, June 1915 / Leonard Thompson --
Mobile hospital unit with the Russian Army, Galicia, 2 June 1915 / Hugh Walpole --
With Austrian cavalry on the Eastern Front, August 1915 / Oskar Kokoschka --
Lance-Corporal Baxter wins the DCM, Western Front, September 1915 / Robert Graves --
Gallipoli : the Allied evacuation, 19 December 1915 / Norman King-Wilson --
U-boat 202 attacks, April 1916 / Adolf K.G.E. von Spiegel --
The battle of Jutland : "X" turret, Battlecruiser Queen Mary, 31 May 1916 / Ernest Francis --
The Somme : 21 Casualty Clearing Station, 1-3 July 1916 / John M.S. Walker --
The death of a brother, 15 July 1918 [sic] / Vera Brittain --
The first tanks in action, 15 September 1916 / Bert Chaney --
The end of Zeppelin L31, 1 October 1916 / Michael MacDonagh --
Birds on the Western front, 1916 / H.H. Munro ("Saki") --
Gassed : Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917 / William Pressey --
The battle of Langemarck, 27 August 1917 / Edward Campion Vaughan --
The execution of Mata Hari, 18 October 1917 / Henry G. Wales --
An American journalist at the storming of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 7 November 1917 / John Reed --
Breslau Prison, December 1917 / Rosa Luxemburg --
French cavalry charge, near Amiens, 26 March 1918 / William Pressey --
Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family shot at Ekaterinburg, 16 July 1918 / Pavel Medvedev --
Incident on the advance to Damascus : Lawrence of Arabia destroys a Turkish column, 24 September 1918 / T.E. Lawrence --
Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919 / Harold Nicolson --
Famine in Russia, October 1921 / Philip Gibbs --
The execution of Henri D. ("Bluebeard") Landru, murderer of ten women, 25 February 1922 / Webb Miller --
German inflation, 19 September 1922 / Ernest Hemingway --
British India : civil disobedience, 21 MAy 1930 / Webb Miller --
Hunger marchers, 27 October 1932 / Wal Hannington --
Bodyline bowling, 13-19 January 1933 / W.H. Ferguson --
The Reichstag fire, 27 February 1933 / D. Sefton Delmer --
The burning Ghats, Benares, India, December 1933 / Patrick Balfour --
The arrest of Osip Mandelstam, 13 May 1934 / Nadezhda Mandelstam --
The Rattenbury case, May-June 1935 / James Agate --
The Italian campaign in Abyssinia : retreat of the Emperor's army to Korem, 4-5 April 1936 / Colonel Konavaloff --
Abyssinia : an American journalist with the Fascist armoured column approaching Addis Ababa, 18 April 1936 / Herbert Matthews --
The Spanish Civil War : Carlist forces drive back the Basque Frente Popular near Irun, 26 August 1936 / G.L. Steer. The Spanish Civil War : Guernica destroyed by German planes, 26 April 1937 / Noel Monks --
The Spanish Civil War : wounded by a Fascist sniper, near Huesca, 20 May 1937 / George Orwell --
The Louis Schmeling fight, 22 June 1938 / Bob Considine --
The Spanish Civil War : Nationalist planes bomb Barcelona, September 1938 / Marcel Junod --
The Second World War : the evacuation of children from London, 1 September 1939 / Hilde Marchant --
Blitzkrieg : German breakthrough on the Meuse, 15 May 1940 / Erwin Rommel --
Dunkirk : the beaches, 1 June 1940 / John Charles Austin --
Dogfight over the Channel, 3 September 1940 / Richard Hillary --
London Docks bombed, 7 September 1940 / Desmond Flower --
The Blitz : Chelsea, 14 September 1940 / Frances Faviell --
Spoil in North Africa : Italian defeat at Nibeiwa, 12 December 1940 / Alan Moorehead --
Bomb disposal : Llandaff, January 1941 / John Miller --
German airborne invasion of Crete, 20 May 1941 / Baron van der Heydte --
Syria : British forces meet resistance from Vichy French, June 1941 / Alan Moorehead --
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / John Garcia --
The Japanese bomb Manila, 8 December 1941 / Carlos P. Romulo --
Japanese air and submarine attack sinks HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Singapore, 10 December 1941 / Cecil Brown --
Auschwitz : the gas chambers, 25 December 1941 / Sophia Litwinska --
Dachau : the medical experiments, 1941-5 / Franz Blaha --
The fall of Kuala Lumpur : the city awaits the Japanese, 11 January 1942 / Ian Morrison --
The sinking of the Tanjong Penang, 19 February 1942 / Anon. --
Leningrad : during the blockade, April-July 1942 / A. Fadeyev --
Five fatal minutes : Japanese carriers cripples, battle of Midway, 4 June 1942 / Mitsuo Fuchida --
Dieppe Raid, 19 August, 1942 / Ross Munro --
Nazi extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine, October 1942 / Hermann Graebe --
El Alamein : the end of the Africa Corps [sic] [Afrika Korps], 4 November 1942 / General Bayerlein --
An English poet in the Western Desert, December 1942 / Keith Douglas --
Stalingrad : December 1942 / Benno Zieser --
Stalingrad : a war correspondent goes in after the German capitulation, 4 February 1943 / Alexander Werth --
German route in the Korsun Salient, central Ukraine, 17 February 1943 / Major Kampov --
The execution of an Allied intelligence officer by the Japanese, New Guinea, 29 March 1943 / Anon. --
Luftwaffe pilot : Tunisia, 7 April 1943 / Alan Moorehead --
Hamburg, 27 July 1943 / Else Wendel --
US Marines land on Tarawa, 20 November 1943 /. Robert Sherrod --
A birthday : Japanese Prison Camp, Kuching, Borneo, 5 April 1944 / Agnes Newton Keith --
Cassino : the final attack; 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers advance, 16 may 1944 / Fred Majdalany --
D-Day minus one : US paratroopers leave fro France, June 5, 1944 / Matthew B. Ridgeway --
D-Day, June 6, 1944 / Anon. --
The Germans meet a new foe, 7 June 1944 / Anon. --
D-Day plus one : a British paratroop seeks directions, 7 June 1944 / James G. Bramwell --
Buzz bombs : an eight-year-old's recollections, June 1944 / Lionel King --
The Russian summer offensive, July 1944 / Alexander Werth --
The bombing of Caen, 7 July 1944 / Desmond Flower --
The Nazi extermination camp, Maidanek, 23 July 1944 / Alexander Werth --
American break-out in Normandy, 24-25 July 1944 / General Bayerlein --
Birkenau Camp, August 1944 / Charles Sigismund Bendel --
The fall of Aachen, 17 October 1944 / George Mucha --
The bombing of Dresden, 14 February 1945 / Margaret Freyer --
US troops advance into Germany, March 1945 / Lester Atwell --
Italian partisans assist the Allied advance, near Trieste, 13 April 1945 / Geoffrey Cox --
The end of the war for a British POW : Stalag IIID, Berlin, 14-29 April 1945 / Norman Norris --
Lüneburg, 20 April 1945 / Desmond Flower --
Belsen, 24 April 1945 / Patrick Gordon-Walker --
The fall of Berlin, 1 May 1945 / Claus Fuhrmann --
Kamikaze attack, 9 May 1945 / Michael Moynihan --
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 / William T. Laurence --
Visiting Hiroshima, 9 September 1945 / Marcel Junod --
The execution of Nazi war criminals, 16 October 1946 / Kingsbury Smith --
Revenge killing, Arabia, November 1946 / Wilfred Thesiger --
Grand National, 29 March 1947 / John Hislop --
Stalingrad, 1949 / John Steinbeck --
Trafalgar Square incident, 23 September 1950 / Kingsley Martin --
The Korean War : civilian casualty near Namchanjan, 17 October 1950 / Reginald Thompson --
The Korean War : the American retreat from the Chongchon River, 27-28 November 1950 / Reginald Thompson --
The Korean War : Padre Blaisdell and the refugee children, Seoul, December 1950 / René Cutforth --
Rabitting, 3 November 1952 / J.R. Ackerly --
The conquest of Everest, 29 May 1953 / James (Jan) Morris --
The intelligent bull, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, Spring 1957 / Norman Lewis --
Stoning to death, Jeddah, February 1958 / R.M. Macoll --
The Vietnam War : South Vietnamese casualty, 1965 / Gavin Young. The Vietnam War : a reporter with the Vietcong, near Hanoi, 10 December 1965 / James Cameron --
The Vietnam War : winning hearts and minds, Tuylon, South Vietnam, 23 August 1967 / John Pilger --
The Vietnam War : C Company, US 11th Infantry Brigade pacify My Lai, 16 March 1968 / Time correspondent --
The first men on the moon, 21 July 1969 / Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin --
Veteran's march, Washington DC, 25 April 1971 / John Pilger --
"It was the Christians" : the massacre at Chatila, 16-17 September 1982 --
The fall of President Marcos, Manila, Philippines, 24-25 February 1986 / James Fenton.