European Historical Biographies

I Will Come Back for You: The Undercover Hewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

By Daniel Huhn

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

Queen James

By Gareth Russell

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

By Peter Marshall

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

By Adam Zamoyski

Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress

By Andrea Zuvich

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

By Catherine Hanley

Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco

By Tim Blanning

Dante the Maker

By William Anderson

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-century Tuscan Peasant

By Duccio Balestracci

Margaret Thatcher: The grocer's daughter

By John Campbell

Chamfort: A Biography

By Claude Arnaud

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

By Barbara Howard Traister

Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism

By J. C. D. Clark

Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print

By Alvin B. Kernan

Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius

By William R. Shea, Mariano Artigas

D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander

By Sgt Trevor Greenwood, S. V. Partington

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)

Nell Gwyn

By Charles Beauclerk

Rex Whistler's War

By Jenny Spencer-Smith, Alan J. Guy

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Harry's War

By Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey, David Griffiths

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

By Christiane Tietz (Professor for Systematic Theology, Professor for Systematic Theology, University of Zurich), Dr Victoria J. Barnett

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

By Anna Quindlen

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

The Story of Spain

By Mark Williams

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Tom Hickman