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- Turning Point traces the early lives of four of the 20th century's most famous leaders and how/when, they reached a critical turning point in their lives. Josef Stalin's mother was determined that he would become a priest. Adolf Hitler was convinced that he would be a famous artist until the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts rejected him and he became a homeless loner. Winston Churchill was an uninspiring student and a political failure until his escape from a Boer POW prison made him famous and relaunched his political career. The British mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II was determined to mold him into an enlightened monarch who would bring peace to Europe.
- In End of Empire Australian Historian David Adams crosses Europe and Asia as he investigates the warrior kings who created vast empires only for their families to later dismember the empire as they fight over the spoils. In a real "Game of Thrones" the dysfunctional families of Attila the Hun; Timur (Tamerlane the Great); Edgar, King of the English and Charlemagne manage to lose it all.