A definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from... Read more

The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.... Read more

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man... Read more

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. This book includes "D-Day: The Concise History", a photo... Read more

For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. This... Read more

Napoleon was the colossus of his age. He rose to become one of Revolutionary France's most successful generals, before being crowned emperor in... Read more

Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series --... Read more

From bestselling author of 'Tommy' and 'Redcoat', the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire... Read more

Investigates the influences that shaped the Churchill: his troubled schooldays, his flamboyant politician father, Randolph, and his famously... Read more

De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading... Read more