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The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment and what he was seeking to achieve....

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present....

The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War....

A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions....

The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat yet a major victory as well....

Gandhi & Churchill shows how their 40-year rivalry revolutionized India and the British Empire, paving the way for a new era....

Every nation shapes sport to test the character traits it most admires. Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders....

It is remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," the one that saw the country's liberation from German occupation....

How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat....

Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine....