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The remarkable 1,000- year history of one of the world's greatest and most misunderstood empires. The Byzantine Empire was one of the longest-surviving ...
The story of Queen Caroline's favourite ghost-writer, the infamous Captain Thomas Ashe, who was also an adventurer and sometime blackmailer. His unpublished novel The ...
The Franco-Prussian War did not end with the catastrophic French defeat at Sedan on 1 September 1870 when an entire French army surrendered, the Emperor ...
The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war's issues in an ...
Are you not entertained? shouts Russell Crowe, playing the part of General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Oscar winning 2000 film Gladiator. The crowd, having ...
According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended ...
One of the most brutal battles in British domestic history brought to stunning life by a master military historian
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale ...
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is ...
Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates ...
A study of the Roman borders, their role as defenses and control points and their impact on the Roman empire as a whole. The borders ...
The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men ...
From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that ...
Conflict or concord? Histories of Islam from its early seventh century beginnings in Arabia often portray its explosive growth into the wider Middle East as ...
A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself ...
Winner of the Costa Biography Award
What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his ...