New Releases by Paul Murray

There is little general agreement about the battles which have most decisively changed the course of history. Those given the fullest description in this book have been chosen on two considerations: each has played a marked part in the making of history and each illustrates an important change in the making of war.

A biography of the medieval French king that strips away legend and reveals a complex human being and extraordinary monarch. Louis XI defied feudal conventions in an age that ruled by them, and possessed a sense of humor that marked him as a dangerous outsider.