Cromwell
7 best books like Cromwell (Antonia Fraser): D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches, The Siege of Krishnapur, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints, Bismarck: A Life, Rush of Blood
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0743449746 |
It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part...
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.
Farrell's story...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
| Author | Tom Holland |
| ISBN | 0385513119 |
In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0446698229 |
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely...
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
| Author | Tim Severin |
| ISBN | 0070563357 |
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built...
| Author | Jonathan Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0199782520 |
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's...
| Author | Mark Billingham |
| ISBN | 1847444210 |
Rush of Blood Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder...Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body...
