Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and...
On October 14, 1415, 5,000 British knights took on a French army five times their number. Despite these odds, the British emerged victorious with one hundred dead to the French's...
In 1215, the barons of England forced King John to sign a revolutionary document that would change the political landscape of Britain and beyond for the next 800 years. In...
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...
Huon Mallelieu retraces the footsteps of Harold Godwinson's English army in autumn 1066 as they raced from their crushing defeat of the invading Norwegian army at Stanford Bridge in Yorkshire...
