Biography: Historical, Political & Military

A deeply personal memoir about finding family and belonging from White House staffer Robin F. Schepper. Growing up torn between her single Pan Amst...

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nu...

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays b...

Beautifully translated by Shelley Frisch, The Number on Your Forearm Is Blue Like Your Eyes is a poignant and riveting memoir that sets a family st...

**Winner, 2023 Ernest Scott Prize ****Winner, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize****Shortlisted, 2023 Prime Minister's Lit...

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republics defeat  Very much...

The John Edwards--Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. One of the biggest political scandals of all time, a fall from grace, a modern-day...

I want life. For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped apart by the Second Sudanese Civil War...

Celtic chieftains emerging from the mists of ancient Wales, the battle-keen Cadogans play their part at Blenheim alongside Marlborough, on board Pe...

SURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, t...

'Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war' Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphTwo m...

For decades, the spectre of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, ...

Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Cryptic and ...

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commi...

Argo meets Spotlight, as journalist Craig Unger, New York Times bestselling author of American Kompromat and House of Bush, House of Saud, reveals ...

Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines.Facing Hitler...

Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines.Facing Hitler...

For the first time in paperback, a powerful and raw glimpse behind the scenes of the Black Panther Party Making Revolution is Don Coxs revelatory,...

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative this Black History Month. ...

In this acclaimed political biography, Hugo Young traces Thatchers journey from her apprenticeship under Harold Macmillan and her participation in ...

he was always very helpful, most informative, and very thoughtful even during his toughest and busiest times. He shall be deeply missed. Dan Quayle...