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.

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.

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 ...

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’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 ...

Few historians of the 18th century have ever doubted that 1759 was one of its decisive turning-points, on a par perhaps with 1776 or 1789; but Frank McLynn contends in this history of "the year ...