The definitive showcase of the year's finest British short stories'Bravo to Salt's beacon of deli...

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look ...

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British gen...

This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of...

When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone becom...

To Thomas Carlyle he was 'not worth his weight in cold bacon,' but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin D...

Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as t...

A radical reassessment of King George III by the lively and prolific pen of a master.

The last year in the life of Bristish general James Wolfe.

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary c...

First time in paperback: An intimate biography of a larger-than-life persona-and a radical reasse...

To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was 'poor Bertie,' to his wife he was 'my dear little man,' whi...