Thomas Pakenham

Featuring previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times) The war declared…

This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was…

In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The…