Frank McLynn, Author Basic Books $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0084-4 An account of African exploration during the Victorian era and such major explorers as Stanley and Livingstone. Illustrations.

In Cairo, Muslims told Napoleon that conversion required circumcision and renouncing alcohol. Frank McLynn, a British biographer, wrote that their view began a long negotiation at Al-Azhar ...

McLynn calls the compromise "a great and underrated propaganda victory for Napoleon." But it didn't prevent Turkey, the nominal ruler of Egypt, from declaring war on France nor the Sultan from ...

Lynda La Plante would is currently reading Napoleon by Frank McLynn, a biography about the French general and would take the complete volumes of William Shakespeare to a desert island.

Napoleon Bonaparte had an idea for winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim people he invaded: He told the Egyptians that he and his army wanted to be Muslims, too. It wasn’t true, but that ...

McLynn’s repertoire of history never ceases to entertain. He has driven wagons west in the great American migration, raised a sword with Bonnie Prince Charlie, delved into African exploration ...

Frank McLynn's 'The Road Not Taken' is a wishful study of Britain’s revolutionary near-misses. By Noel Malcolm 10 July 2012 • 7:00am . Jack Cade, ...