Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)

The Children of Henry VIII

The Princes in the Tower

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

The Pirates

A General History of the Pyrates

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

The British Empire

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800