Ambitious royalty schemes, plots and butchers its way into historic infamy on both sides of the English Channel during the Hundred Years War between France and England
Against the backdrop of the Italian Wars Giovanni Borgia meets both Machiavelli and Michelangelo as he tries to discover the identity of his true parents
The great masterpiece of the living Dutch novelist most often tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature - a classic tale of the European settlers' experience in the Far East worthy of t
It is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorious cowers in the mar