The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. This book charts the history from the first campaigns to the Charge of the Light Brigade, from the Crusades to the Dardenelles, and brings to life innumerable aspects of Ottoman life.

The Middle East, as we know it today, emerged from decisions made by the Allies during and after the First World War. This extraordinarily ambitious, vividly written account tells how and why those decisions were made and the devastating effect they had.

Presents the history of the momentous years between 1934 and 1939, when millions of people died in Stalin's purges. This title confirms the Terror as one of the tragic and far-reaching human and political issues.

Reveals the beginning of Byzantium. This book describes the five formative centuries of an empire.

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. This history of the war is based largely on private papers of the conflict's leading protagonists.

the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of Africa