Historical Biographies 1501-1700

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Adam Nicolson

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

So Idle a Rogue: Life and Death of Lord Rochester

By Lamb, Jeremy

Drake of Tavistock

By Helen Joy Harris

Elizabeth I and the Government of England

By Keith Randell

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

By Joan Didion

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

Thomas Cromwell: The True Story of 'Wolf Hall'

By J. Patrick Coby

Alexander the Great

By Richard Stoneman (University of Exeter, UK)

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador

By Lauren Mackay

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

By Liam Vaughan

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway: From Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla (Classics S)

By Sturluson, Snorri, Palsson, HERMANN, Magnusson, Magnus

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

King James VI of Scotland, I of England

By Antonia Fraser

The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story

By Catherine Fletcher

Benjamin Franklin

By Edmund S. Morgan

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

The Lion House: Discover the life of Suleyman the Magnificent, the most feared man of the sixteenth century

By Christopher de Bellaigue

Richelieu (Profiles In Power)

By Knecht, R.

The Life and Times of Christopher Columbus

Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge: 1502 to 1649

By Patrick Collinson (University of Cambridge), Richard Rex (University of Cambridge), Graham Stanton (University of Cambridge)

The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue

By Christy Campbell

Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors

By Sean Rayment

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher