Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

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...

Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings i...

This fascinating autobiography traces Bernard Magubane's early life in country and town under apartheid, his years in exile and his intellectual de...

Written by a Czech Jewish boy, A Boy in Terez n covers a year of Pavel Weiner''s life in the Theresienstadt transit camp in the Czech town of Terez...

During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succ...

As a very young boy in the Second World War the seeds were sown to fly in the blue sky. Terry made up his young mind with great determination to re...

Ilhan Omars career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to...

Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come...

Michael Duddridge flew with Army Aviation for eleven years, beginning seven years after the end of WW2. Many of those he flew with had been glide...

According to Thomas Kilroy, his captivating memoir materialized in response to a cataract operation in 2006, shocking his memory into being and imp...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now tr...

ONE OF HAY FESTIVAL'S 100 BEST BOOKS WRITTEN BY WOMEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARS. Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of An...

'Time Flies: Reflections of a Fighter Pilot' retells the exploits of David Hamilton's thirty years of service in the Royal Air Force. He had a wide...

The first ever collection of the letters between Churchill and his mother. '[An] entertaining and illuminating collection... As a whole it is a de...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA life in and out of politics from the despatch box to the stage on Strictly by one of Britains most influential and w...

One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the enchanted, magical beauty of this much-loved area of the co...

Group Captain Tom Eeles served in the RAF for 44 years and totaled over 8000 hours of flying in twenty-eight different aircraft types. Tom entered ...

Stumbling from a university anarchist meeting into a career in the army, Chip Chapman is aware of how consciously incompetent he is. The Royal Mili...

On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although thi...

9 April 1940: Finn Thorsager was the first Norwegian to open fire on invading German forces. He was credited with shooting down an enemy aircraft i...

In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency. Three months earlier, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 had been abrogated, leading to the wi...

At the age of 94, Jack Swaab decided to place on record his recollections of a long and richly textured life. The result, 'Slouching in the Undergr...

This is a new publication of The Unbroken Tradition by activist and writer Nora Connolly, first published in 1918. Connolly shares her first-hand ...