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Frank McLynn
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East…
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Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was…
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'McLynn's splendid and eminently readable biography gives us not Charles the myth but the man ... as he shows, the key to understanding the prince lies in the entanglement of…
A new perspective on the long and bloody Burma campaign, focusing on the four Allied commanders who battled not only the Japanese and their allies but also one another
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‘Fascinating. A compelling and intriguing volume.’ Associated Press
Scarcely over a hundred years ago, Africa was still the Dark Continent to Europeans-its geography and peoples largely unknown.
The continent was…
'Refreshing ... Frank McLynn has plunged into an important episode in the modern Mexican experience - namely, the social and political revolution that rocked the country for some twenty years…
'Meticulously and grippingly told.' Evening Standard
Henry Morton Stanley took his life and reputation into his own hands when he decided to explore the most dangerous parts of uncharted Central…
In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns in India and the West Indies, in Germany and Canada…
A stirring, authoritative account of the Mexican Revolution, told through the lives of its infamous rebel-outlaws: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of bloody…
In what The Washington Post has called fascinating, McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West.
McLynn examines crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century.
In the two great battles of 1759, Britain effectively beat France for global supremacy and founded the first British Empire. This title shows how the conflict between Britain and France…
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.
Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death.
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer…
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A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two. The Burma Campaign was one of…
Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan’s rise from…
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was…
From an acclaimed historian, a dual biography of good king Richard the Lionheart and his evil brother, King John
F.J. McLynn
Tracing Napoleon’s career, Frank McLynn begins with his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and the military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, and ultimate defeat and…
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Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but it has become customary to assume that the victory was inevitable, given the alleged superiority of…
