Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)

An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David M.

Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant.

No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs lyses.

The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined without the firing of a shot.

Napoleon.

Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure.

A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian.

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.

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

'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it.

From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority .

The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success.

From the author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories.

This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.

[Previously published as 'Went The Day Well']A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.

This lavishly illustrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-read ebook explores one of the most important periods of Western history - the American War of Independence.

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.

America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America.

Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War.

'A compulsive page-turner .

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered.

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it.

'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "e;history from below"e; .

A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars.