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Frank McLynn
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.
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Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East…
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A new perspective on the long and bloody Burma campaign, focusing on the four Allied commanders who battled not only the Japanese and their allies but also one another
Has anybody done more - done as much - as Frank McLynn in writing intelligent, combative, thoroughly researched and thoroughly readable history? - The Independent Most people know that Britain…
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In the two great battles of 1759, Britain effectively beat France for global supremacy and founded the first British Empire. This title shows how the conflict between Britain and France…
McLynn examines crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century.
A stirring, authoritative account of the Mexican Revolution, told through the lives of its infamous rebel-outlaws: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Villa and Zapata vividly chronicles the decade of bloody…
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was…
From an acclaimed historian, a dual biography of good king Richard the Lionheart and his evil brother, King John
In what The Washington Post has called fascinating, McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and settle the American West.
The contrast with Britain’s European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is dramatic - all have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war and experienced fundamental change…
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A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two. The Burma Campaign was one of…
Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was…
In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns in India and the West Indies, in Germany and Canada…
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer…
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Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death.
Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan’s rise from…
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Tracing Napoleon’s career, Frank McLynn begins with his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and the military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, and ultimate defeat and…
Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but it has become customary to assume that the victory was inevitable, given the alleged superiority of…
Discovers what the Plantagenets were really like and how their history measures up to their myth. This work shows how bad a king John was, despite his intellectual gifts, and…
