The Jacobite Rebellion 1745-46

The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds in stripping away the myths to reveal the key events of this ...

A history of Greece

Greek-speaking people have occupied the Aegean region continuously since the Bronze Age, while Greek culture has been a feature of the Eastern Mediterranean dating back to the Age of Alexander. But what do Greeks today have in common with Homer, Plato and Aristotle? What are ...

The Chinese Civil War 1945-49

Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party. In 1927, the inevitable clash between these two political parties led to a bitter civil war that would ...

The great islamic conquests

AD 632-750

Few centuries in world history have had such a profound and long- lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history. In this book, David Nicolle examines the extensive Islamic conquests between AD 632 and 750. These years saw the religion and culture of ...

The wars of Alexander the Great

336-323 BC

The Hundred Years' War

1337-1453

Genghis Khan & the mongol conquests 1190-1400

Contents illustrated The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that ...

The Punic Wars

264-146 BC

The Hundred Years´ War

1337-1453

Contents illustrated There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In ...