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 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, […]