Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in years, The Days of the ...

The only book to be devoted exclusively to the Battle of Corunna and to the short preceding campaign.

As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity.

A full-scale popular history of the American War of Independence.

Waterloo was the battle that ended Napolean's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. Christopher Hibbert creates portraits of Napoleon and Wellington, of the ...

Profiles the women who were the lovers of Napoleon and whose lives reflected the political and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary France.