DescriptionAn exciting medieval historical about William Marshal, probably the greatest knight of the Middle Ages.
DescriptionThis novel is a family saga in the grand tradition, a tale of brother against brother, cousin against cousin, of love, hate, and intrigue, of women inescapably entangled in the fates of their men, and of a mystery that has exercised people's minds for more than 500 years. At the heart of it all is the dangerous, complex human being known to history as Richard III.
DescriptionIn all of Roman history there was never a more turbulent year than A.D. 69, the ill-omened "Year of the Three Emperors". By some miracle, the greatest historian of the age, Tacitus, was able to chronicle those momentous events in a work he called The H…
DescriptionAn intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources. Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than 30 years, offers a singularly novel, nua…
DescriptionVery few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important, but also his best work. He spent 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival work, and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides: the French, for whom she raised an army to return the Dauphin to the throne; and the English, who fought the French in the Hundred Year's War and were ultimately Joan's executioners. This is a fascinating and remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers.
