The relaunched Essential Histories series features updates from the authors, new images throughout, and a reinvigorated design. Written by subject experts, each title provides an introduction to a major conflict or theatre of war, including the origins, politics, fighting and repercussions. They are fully illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned colour maps. Leading up to the 1990 Survivor Series, a giant egg was displayed at WWF shows and it was implied that the egg would hatch around the time of the card. During the show, Mean Gene Okerlund listened to the egg, said it was about to hatch and out came ... The Gobbledy Gooker, credited as one of Vince McMahon's stupidest ideas. He and Mean Gene danced for a little bit while fans booed. That same night, Ted DiBiase's team had a mystery member. After the rest of his team was introduced, DiBiase brought out his fourth man, a new WWF wrestler managed by Brother Love named ... The Undertaker. Arlo the Alligator Boy: Ansel Beauregard, the biological father of half-alligator boy Arlo Beauregard, is a Half-Human Hybrid just like him — a bird-man, and had forsaken him at birth because he was bullied by his appearance as a child and disguised himself as a normal person to blend into society, and feared his alligator son would expose him.

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The Big Reveal...

The clue: There’s something magical about a good story. And sometimes magical clues can end up inside them too. Open a favourite book and you’ll see! In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history. William Hiestand is following up his Stalingrad Airlift with two more Eastern Front titles, expanding the series’ overdue coverage of the theatre. We welcome a new author, USAF Command Historian Brian Laslie, whose Operation Allied Force promises to be a very well-informed account of NATO airpower at war, while Shlomo Aloni and Peter Davies delve into two very different Cold War subjects. In Sophocles's Oedipus the King, Oedipus searches for the man who assassinated King Laius, only to find that he himself killed the king. As the seer Tiresias tells him, "You are the murderer you seek." This is one of Aristotle's examples of anagnorisis in the Poetics.

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But this is not the full story of the Barbarossa air war. In this book, Eastern Front historian William Hiestand not only recounts how the VVS was famously smashed in the Luftwaffe’s initial onslaught, but he also explains how the months between June and December saw other critical developments often less covered – Luftwaffe losses and a steady decrease in aircraft readiness under the pressure of long months of combat and advance during the summer; the evacuation of Soviet industry, including aircraft construction, from the western USSR to the Urals; and the slow rebuilding of the VVS. By the time the German columns stalled 25km from Moscow, the VVS actually had more aircraft operational at the front than the Luftwaffe, and better able to operate in the brutal winter conditions that soon descended on the front. Having already confirmed he wouldn't be returning to his law career after winning the show, Jordan and Henry said fans are hoping that they could join forces for a travel show or an appearance on Gogglebox.