"I have committed many acts of cruelty and had an incalculable number of men killed, never knowing whether what I did was right. But I am indifferent to what people…

How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no apparent gift for leadership or strategy become the leader of one of the most civilized countries in Europe…

Great battles mark history’s turning points where cultures and ideologies clash. Some battles are won by inspired leaders, some by superior weaponry, while others are won by a sheer dogged…

Pirates have an almost mythical status in the public imagination - we think of rogue heroes riding the high seas and ‘X marks the spot’. But this image is flawed…

There are plenty of misguided, violent and unpleasant people in the world - but how many can be classified as truly evil?

This book concerns the young men who were not yet twenty when they won the Victoria Cross, the British armed forces highest award for gallantry. Many perished in the action…

A humorous look at the banned fifty shades of gray of the past.

Witches examines the persecution and the religious hysteria which inspired it tracing its roots back to the savage suppression of the heretical Waldenisan sect by the Catholic church.