Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

Vesna Maric left Bosnia the beginning of the war, at the age of sixteen, on a convoy of coaches carrying refugees to Penrith in the north of Englan...

I was born on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, 1861. It was a few days before the full of the moon. I found myself in a village. I had some sligh...

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York ...

The story of Joan Ruddock, born in the Welsh valleys, who came to lead one of Britain's biggest protest movements and went on to address the United...

Patrick Wrights memoir opens on a diplomatic crisis. A growing number of countries are threatening to boycott the Commonwealth Games in protest of ...

One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Cons...

 Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Azizs incisive and luminous prose. ...

On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a...

Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archers The Prison Diaries, the authors daily record of the time he spent there.The sun is shining thr...

'A pleasure to read... a timely reminder of the need for service' -- The Daily Telegraph'The voices and reminiscence of family and friends merge s...

It is love of country that inspires us; not hate of the enemy   Terence MacSwiney, the renowned Republican lord mayor of Cork, died on 25 October ...

As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatch...

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is the last boo...

As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump's press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean...

In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of...

'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were t...