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Diana Preston

Diana Preston is an Oxford-educated historian, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45 Rebellion; A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole and Besieged in Peking: The Story of the 1900 Boxer Rising.
She co authored with her husband Michael Preston Before the Fall-Out. The Human Chain Reaction from Marie Curie to Hiroshima which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction 2006. A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time tells the story behind the Taj Mahal; her latest book Cleopatra and Antony is published by Doubleday.

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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania

Boxer Rebellion: China's War on Foreigners, 1900, The

First Rate Tragedy, A

Pirate of Exquisite Mind, A

Before the Fall-Out

Teardrop on the Cheek of Time, A

Cleopatra and Antony:The Truth Behind one of the Greatest Love Stories in History