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All you Need To Know about a range of topics from D Day, Pearl Harbour and The Battle of Rorke’s Drift to Leonardo Da Vinci, the explorer Shackleton and scientist Charles Darwin. Need To Know places them in their historical and social context, giving you the key players, the key events and their chronology and the key dates. In fact - All you Need To Know!