Phoenix

Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee served as an RAF bomber pilot in World War II. His plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, and he subsequently...

Bloomsbury Ballerina Tells The Story Of The Unpredictable Russian Dancer Who Ruffled The Feathers Of The Bloomsbury Set And Became The Wife Of John Maynard ...

Enigma: The Battle For The Code Sebag-Montefiore, HughCategories: History MilitaryWorld War II

Himalaya, The Abode of Snow. This is the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1,800 miles from the borders of Afgh...

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock ...

Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, handsom...

The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop.It begins just before Christmas in Barcel...

So Highly Coloured Was Catherine's Private Life That It Has Often Distracted Attention From Her Remarkable Professional Statecraft. Dr De Madariaga, The Doy...

A dazzling account of peace and conflict in 15th Century England which emphasises the military over the political history of the Wars of the Roses. Frequen...