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NEXT MONTH on sale 27 May 2008
Nazi final
Roger Moorhouse reports on a politically charged football game between Austrian and German rivals (left) that was played as the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union got under way
Beowulf
Alex Burghart examines the historical enigma that is Beowulf (right), the Anglo-Saxon tale of a dragon-slaying warrior that has fascinated everyone from medieval scholars to Hollywood directors
Athenian democracy
Peter Jones explores a remarkable political system in which everyone was subject to the will of the people – even leading statesmen such as Pericles
A history of astronomy
Heather Couper charts our relationship with space, from early Chinese maps of the skies to ‘New Ager’ festivals
The world in revolt
David Andress and Mike Rapport explain how insurrection in France, depicted here in the 1789 storming of the Bastille, triggered half a century of unrest around the world
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