By Roger Crowley. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley’s readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the […]
By Brendan Simms. The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon. Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting […]
By Dan Jones July 1346. The Hundred Years’ War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs to the men on the ground. Swept up in the bloody chaos, a tight-knit company […]
By Robert Harris. ‘From what is it they flee?’He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King.’ 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross […]
By Juliet Barker. Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt (as it is now) is in the Pas-de-Calais, and […]
By Cecil Woodham-Smith. This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony — and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade […]
By James Leasor. Follow the Drum is a story of men and women caught in a cataclysm of mutiny, hatred, fear and passion. India, in the mid-nineteenth century, was virtually nun by a British commercial concern, the Honourable East India Trading Company, […]
By Mark Urban. The book traces the story of a unit of the British Army, formed in 1803 as the 95th Regiment of Foot, who were known as The Rifles. Up to that point, most infantry soldiers would wear the classic ‘redcoat’ […]