The first campaign in which British Army cavalry fought with the lance Napoleon’s light cavalry taught its enemies, in harshly learned lessons ...

The Knights of the white cross The Order of Knights Hospitallers-or Knights of St John-originated in the times of the Crusades in 1119, though the foundation ...

The long legs of the law George Barr McCutcheon, the author of this special Leonaur two-in-one edition of the Anderson Crow stories, is perhaps better ...

The story of Japan’s premier naval commander and his greatest victory Togo Heihachiro was a gensui (admiral) of the fleet of the Imperial Japanese ...

The astonishing last days of the Russian imperial dynasty The principal work in this special Leonaur edition caused a sensation when it was first published ...

The second volume of an eight book collection from 'the grandfather of the ghost story' Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of ...

Experiences of the wife of an officer in green Mrs Fitz Maurice's book, The Rifleman's Wife is often quoted in Cope's History of the Rifle Brigade, the ...

Volume two of the cases of Joseph Müller The success of stories of mystery, crime and detection rely inevitably and heavily on the persona of the ...

Caught between the red and the black-Quatermain at war! In this, the fourth volume of Allan Quatermain's adventures in the turbulent world of nineteenth ...

Dangerous by name-dangerous by nature All three volumes of George Augustus Sala's rollicking adventures of Captain Dangerous have been brought together ...