The dangerous book of heroes

George Washington

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

Daniel Boone

The few: The Royal Air Force Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain

The Magna Carta barons

Oliver Cromwell

Helen Keller

James Cook

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

The abolition of slavery in the British Empire: Sharp, Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Buxton

Tatanka Iyotake: Sitting Bull

Edith Cavell

Thomas Paine and Rights of Man

The women of SOE: setting Europe ablaze

Siege of the Alamo

Sir Henry Morgan: buccaneer

Lawrence of Arabia

Florence Nightingale

Flight 93

Winston Churchill

The Gurkhas

Horatio Nelson: the immortal memory

The Marines at Iwo Jima

Billy Bishop: the courage of the early morning

Bletchley Park and the first computers

William Bligh's boat voyage

Apollo 11: landing on the Moon

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Alcock and Brown: transatlantic, nonstop

Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake

Harry Houdini: escapologist

Scott of the Antarctic

The men of Colditz

The unknown warrior

Martin Luther King, Jr.