British & European History

This book examines the extrodinary evolution of Napoleon's character and the means by which at the age of thirty he became head of the most powerful country in Europe: from his Corsican origins to his French education, from his meloncholy youth to his involvement in Corsican political faction fighting during the revolution, and from his flirtation with the radicals of the French Revolution to his first military campaigns in Italy and Egypt and the political military coup that brought him to power in 1799.

Hardback. 650 pages. NEW.  

How two million women survived without men after the First World War. An important story, tremendously well researched, vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.

Hardback. 312 pages. NEW. 

This is the first history since the Vatican published sensational records of the trial and abolition of the order. It investigates the history, legends and locations associated with the Templars' rise and fall, and it examines the myths surrounding the Knights. The belief that their hand can be seen in everything from the Cathar heresy to Masonic conspiracies as well as their appearance in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown.

Hardback. 368 pages. NEW.

Wink brings his vast, meticulous research and narrative skill to the cold, dark battlefields and deadly clashes of ideologies that defined this age. Here is a savage world war, the toppling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. Here, too, is the first modern Holy war between Islam and a resurgent Christian empire. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robspierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon and Selim III. With powerful echoes for understanding the iternational chaos that confronts the globe today, we see each of them fighting desperately for the ideals they believed in, whether man made democracy or divinely inspired autocracy, whether republicanism or Allah's law.

Hardback. 660 pages. NEW.