Napoleon
Tracing Napoleon's career, Frank McLynn begins with his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and the military triumphs, to the coronati... »

Wagons West
A history of the incredible heroism and dangerous folly of the mid-Western farmers who made their way to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Using original d... »

Villa and Zapata
A History of the Mexican Revolution »

Bonnie Prince Charlie
Charles Edward Stuart »

Robert Louis Stevenson
A Biography »

Lionheart And Lackland
King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest. Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious,... »

1759
The Year Britain Became Master of the World »

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
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1066
The Year of the Three Battles. Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in... »

1759
Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588 or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year si... »