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 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 Dan Jones. Powers and thrones is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD410, to the first contacts between the old and the new worlds in the late fifteenth century. During these eleven centuries […]