Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life befo...

The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller that inspired BBC drama Danny BoyAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous B...

The Sunday Times Bestseller that inspired BBC drama Danny BoyAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous B...

With a closeness perhaps unique to siblings orphaned young, Orlando and Artimisia Missie Palmer exchanged intimate letters throughout their lives. ...

With a closeness perhaps unique to siblings orphaned young, Orlando and Artimisia Missie Palmer exchanged intimate letters throughout their lives. ...

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...

Retracing my mothers footsteps in search of womens freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omah...

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 - 8 March 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United S...

Between 1945 and 1963 over 2 12 million 18-year-olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story...

In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruc...

A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative po...

In Benjamin Bibi Netanyahus compelling (The Economist) and fascinating (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prim...