Historical Biographies 1501-1700

Peter the Great

By Henri Troyat

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos

By Dava Sobel

Elizabeth I

By Lady Anne Somerset

Dante: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man

By Barbara Reynolds

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By Elliot Ackerman

The Age Of Bede

By Edited with an Introduction By D. H. Farmer

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

King Charles II: His Life and Times (Kings & queens of England)

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Edward VI

By Jennifer Loach, George Bernard, Penry Williams

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

By Leo Damrosch

The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

By Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham), Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms, Tom Egerton

James I: Scotland's King of England

By John Matusiak

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country

By Michael Novak, Jana Novak

Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

By Bilton, Michael

Erasmus

By James McConica

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture

By Alister E. McGrath

Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

By Barbara W. Tuchman

Luther

By Heiko Oberman

Perkin

By Ann Wroe

Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art

By S. J. Gunn (Merton College, Oxford), P. G. Lindley

In Defence of the Church Catholic: Life of Stephen Gardiner

By Glyn Redworth

The Conquest of New Spain

By Bernal Diaz del Castillo, John Cohen

HENRY V111 PERS.& POLITICS

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy

By Kirkpatrick Sale

The Lost: A search for six of six million

By Daniel Mendelsohn