Nostradamus worked alone, in a secret study, versed in the forbidden writings, a historian of the future who generations have recognised as the greatest seer Europe has ever known . . . he wrote in coded quatrains, to preserve his visions from the fearsome Inquisition. He saw the centuries that had yet to come . . .
The executive of Charles I, the French revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the war in Crimea, the Bolshevik revolution, the two terrible world wars, the coming and the death of Hitler, and the sudden wealth of Arab power. A socialist government in France, the attempted assassination of a Pope from Poland . . . all this is hidden in the quatrains. And so is the chronology of apocalypse . . .
