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CHRISTMAS 2019

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20 The fall of Roman Britain Will Bowden reveals how life changed for Britons when the legions departed

29 Einstein on the run The physicist was given a rapturous TGEGRVKQP YJGP JG GF VQ $TKVCKP KP 1933, writes Andrew Robinson

34 Eleanor of Aquitaine Sara Cockerill explodes some of the myths that have grown up around the famed medieval queen

43 A medieval new England Caitlin Green tells the remarkable story of the 11th-century exiles who set up an English colony on the Black Sea

50 King of the world Philip Mansel on how Louis XIV turned France into a truly global power

57 An unexpected Christmas Sam Willis and James Daybell look at VJG HGUVKXG RGTKQF KP C FK GTGPV NKIJV

60 Waging war with history Andrew Roberts examines how war leaders from Napoleon to Churchill have tried to learn lessons of the past

Discover which war leader regarded Joan of Arc as a role model, on page 60

29 Why Albert Einstein fell in love with Britain in 1933

34 Was Eleanor of Aquitaine a medieval superwoman?

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20 “Why did Britain fall out of Rome’s orbit so quickly? And what did it mean to the people the legions left behind?”