Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military

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...

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...