By Keith Thomson Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough […]
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 […]