Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

Against the Grain is a journey through the political career of Norman Baker, the independent-minded, and colourful, former Liberal Democrat MP, and...

From Dublin to Beirut, Guantanamo Bay to Iraq - and all the way back - Tom Clonan takes the reader on a very personal journey through the Global Wa...

Pre-order the thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat.The Eurofighter ...

No Retreat, No Surrender is an easy read that encourages people to hold on to life in the face of challenges. Each chapter ends with a leadership l...

'Charles Guthrie has been one of Britains foremost soldiers as well as a terrific personality throughout his remarkable life. It is great that he i...

_RADIOMAN tells a universal story -- about war, family, and growing up. Andy Hesterman's 25 years in the Marines span a huge range of world events ...

'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as bein...

The memoirs of senior UK diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, former ambassador in Turkey, France and the United States during Barack Obama''s presidency...

''Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd''s courage and determination is admirable'' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018...

The Netflix Documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, explores Nepal''s deep connection to high-altitude mountaineering through the eyes of Nirm...

'His name was Ibrahim. He was about five years old and the thing he wanted most in the world was to go to school.' In a tiny country on the Horn o...

Cezar Danon was taken to a concentration camp with his family in 1942 when he was just 13 years old. They survived the camp and years in hiding bef...

BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARSayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy ...

Georgia 2001. Your mission, Jo, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what young Georgians want, said the man from the Foreign and Commonw...

As an asthmatic teenager in the 1950s, I longed for a life in a place more exotic and warm for my condition than the then dreary Britain. National...

A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lie...

The memories I have committed to paper are genuine: they have lived with me for the past sixty-eight years. They are as fresh in my mind today as t...

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and claim superio...

An incident at a hospital ward round in southern England brought back memories of his Biafran childhood to a Nigerian doctor. Biafra was formed in ...

An unlikely political star tells us how Washington really works and really doesnt. As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to...

Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alis...

Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential cand...

One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue ...

Ernie OMalley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, i...

First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new F...

In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tr port in n...

In the classic tradition of the philosopher-activist, Daniel Bensaïd tells the story of a life deeply entwined with the history of both the French ...

Beginning in 1915, the Gallipoli Campaign was intended to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia, st...

Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly h...

Global hit maker Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical spotlights the world of Stephen Ward - the social cavalier who knew everyone who mattered - and ...

Paratrooper Lance-Corporal Vincent Bramley's account of his experiences in the frontline of modern warfare is a testament that could stand for any ...

The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatchers life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Ma...

Early in the morning of 4 March 2015, a fierce knock at the door heralded the start of a new chapter in Harvey Proctor's almost continuous relation...