Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (177190), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. T...

Former Prime Minister and the countrys longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decad...

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent w...

Sergeant Albert Simpkin MMs Great War diary is of unusual scope and exceptional interest. Albert was a First World War motorcycle despatch rider at...

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he l...

MacLellans reminiscences were first recorded in Gaelic in the early 1960s, and later transcribed and translated by John Lorne Campbell into this ou...

Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'we...

'From Erewash to Radegund' records a young man's life from a Midland mining village through elementary school, a school in a big city, wartime in t...