Biographies

• Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph Paperback ISBN 978-0-87113-665-7 1997
• A Brief History of Napoleon in Russia
• Kings and queens of England
• Napoleon & Marie Louise : the Emperor's second wife
• Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King
• The Life and Times of George IV
• Metternich
• (German) Metternich. Der Staatsmann Europas ISBN 978-3-546-47346-0 1986
• Alexander I : Tsar of war and peace
• (German) Alexander I. Gegenspieler Napoleons. ISBN 978-3-453-55114-5 1984
• The Kaiser: Warlord of the Second Reich ISBN 978-0-297-77393-1 1978
• Bismarck
• Kemal Atatürk (Makers of the 20th Century)
• Princes of Wales
• The Royal House of Greece
• The Chancelleries of Europe
• Franz Joseph I
• Frederick The Great
• Sam Boyce (Australia)

History

• The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire ISBN 978-0-87131-754-4 1993 — an overview of the Ottoman Empire from the Battle of Vienna lost in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922 by Mustafa Kemal
• (German) Verfall und Untergang des Osmanischen Reiches ISBN 978-3-453-11768-6 1997
• Victory, 1918
• Nations and empires
• Age of optimism
• Fictional minds
• The gardeners of Salonika
• Russia in War and Peace
• The Baltic: A New History of the Region and Its People
• Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and Its Peoples hardcover: ISBN 978-0-7195-6287-7 2005, paperback: ISBN 978-0-7195-6299-0 2006
• Napoleon in Russia
• Napoleon's Russian Campaign ISBN 978-0-7867-1263-2 2003
• Banner of Battle: Story of the Crimean War Hardcover ISBN 978-0-297-79042-6 1987
• East End: Four Centuries of London Life, Paperback ISBN 978-0-7195-5666-1 2000, ISBN 978-0-7195-6640-0 2004
• The Salient Hardcover ISBN 978-1-84119-633-6 2007

Reference works

• A dictionary of modern history, 1789-1945
• The Penguin dictionary of twentieth-century history
• Penguin Dictionary of Modern History, 1789-1945
• Quotations in History : A Dictionary of Historical Quotations
• Who's Who in Modern History
• An Encyclopaedia of Napoleon's Europe
• The Facts on File Dictionary of 20th Century History
• Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth
• Who's Who in World Politics
• A dictionary of modern politics
• The chronology of British history