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A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought ...
One of our best popular historian tells the remarkable story of the events that took place in 1066, probably ...
Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specializes in biographies and military history. He has written over 20 books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, and Marcus Aurelius. He is a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, and London University, where he obtained his doctorate.
A remarkable new book on a crucial moment in British and world history.
The truth behind Richard the Lionheart and Bad King John - brilliantly readable, scrupulously researched and full of powerful story-telling
The vivid, magisterial and long-awaited biography of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor - and embodiment of the philosopher's king - whose life and works still speak to us 2,000 years after his death.
A key, defining era in American history, full of extraordinary stories and larger than life characters.
'A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon. ' The Times.
The critics who enjoyed Frank Mclynn's biography of Robert Louis Stevenson were so united in their views that, if it had been a school exam, they would have been hauled before the headmaster for cheating ...
'He has built up the narrative from the widest possible range of sources. He has integrated into a single man's story analyses of almost every subject that touched upon Stanley's life, so that one is ...
'the definitive biography which had been needed for so long' Caroline Bingham, TLS'does much to explain that contradictory accounts left to us of the man'Rosalind Mitchison, London Review of Books
A fascinating history of the Mexican Revolution, told through a dual biography of its legendary heroes, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
One of our best popular historian tells the remarkable story of the events that took place in 1066, probably the most famous date in English history.