Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War John Keegan Life and death ...

'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am MalalaZarifa Ghafari was two years old when the Ta...

A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary...

'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous me...

Two sisters.One extraordinary true story.Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with th...

The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starr...

'Alas that I ever did sin! It is so merry in Heaven!' The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1436-8) is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mothe...

'Dawn Butler is a history-making, game-changing, ceiling-smashing politician.This powerful book offers a fascinating insight into both the personal...

In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing...

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...

From his deep involvement in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's to his almost forty years at the head of the New Republic, Marti...

'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous me...

Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 And Then What? is breathless and conversational and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is d...

After being called up for National Service in July 1960, twenty-year-old Chas Hall joined the RAF and signed on to extend his time for an extra thr...

Booker T. Washingtons famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washingtons rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation...

For more than thirty years, Giora Even-Epstein flew fighters for the Israel Air Force, achieving recognition as a highly skilled military aviator a...

For the journey of Lent this year, Kevin OGorman SMA chose an unusual companion, the Popes Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, Rejoice and Be Glad. F...

The Sunday Times bestseller - Health Secretary Wes Streeting's inspiring East End growing up memoir. '[A] compelling story of overcoming adversit...