Biography: Historical, Political & Military

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 Sparkling historywith a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, ...

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final ...

Tippu Tip was chiefly an ivory trader, who pioneered for new sources through present day Tanzania into the Congo basin. Slavery is part of his stor...

Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American...

Did you knowthat 233 soldiers of the Indian Army were cordoned off for almost three months without food in the jungles of Africa? Howdid a UN peace...

A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at th...

...particularly peculiar, breath-taking and worth telling. Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur. Francis Nenik's thrilling slice of narrative non-fictio...

Flight Lieutenant Thomas Tommy'' Rose, a First World War fighter ace, was a pioneer of private flying. He installed and managed the UK''s first fu...

When Ruttie Petit fled from her father's castle to wed Mohammed Ali Jinnah in 1918, their marriage outraged society at large. They were divided by ...

''It is refreshing,'' writes Sir Peter de la Billiere in his foreword to this book, ''to have an account of Churchill that breaks new ground.'' And...

2023 Big Other Book Award Nonfiction Finalist Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its...

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiriss masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterpri...

The definitive biography of Louisa Catherine, wife and political partner of President John Quincy AdamsInsightful and entertaining.Susan Dunn, New ...

Not even old enough to drink, Corporal Savannah Cannon is a young enlisted United States Marine deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in A...

Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the wo...

On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and...