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The gripping bestselling account of the largest military campaign ever, by the much-acclaimed WW2 historian Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a...

Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...

Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion' The triumph of the First Crusade...

This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who...

' Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The...

The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...

In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...

El Alamein, July to November 1942 explores one of the Second World War's most pivotal battles, focusing on the crucial role of the 9th Australian Division. This book examines how...

In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...