Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father, Duke Robert the Magnificent, William the Conqueror is revealed as the brutal and violent product...

Henrys fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. Howev...

Eliza Acton is the forgotten hero of our culinary past. A debt of gratitude to her is what Delia Smith, Elizabeth David and Mrs Beeton have in comm...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy figh...

Katharine of Aragon was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor history Englands breach with Rome after a thous...

As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with her children becoming King of England (Henry VII...

As a youth, Henry VIII was a magnificent specimen of manhood, and in age a gargantuan wreck, but even in his prime he was never the 'ladies man' wh...

The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty m...

This is a highly readable history and a unique work of reference. Focusing on the succession of the rulers of imperial Rome, it uses timelines with...

This is the untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma. For almost six decades, Jacquelin...

During Justice Sonya Sotomayor's 2009 confirmation hearings, the idea of biography played a high-profile role in the debate. How much does a person...

The story of Ava Helen Paulingher rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for pe...

The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, barten...

From her early years in the Alaskan wilderness to the electrifying excitement of the campaign trail to her bright future as a star of the Tea Party...

Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), the richest c...

James Roose-Evans'''' list of accomplishments is formidable. Fifty years ago he founded the Hampstead Theatre. He has written seventeen books, incl...

The inside story of Teddy's life and presidency!You probably know that Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, but did you ...

Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern asce...

Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wif...

This book presents the history of the famous Major Witzig, born on August 14, 1916, aspiring officer on April 1, 1935, head of the engineering sect...

The name John Howard (1726-1790) is well-known as that of the man after whom the UK's oldest penal reform charity, the Howard League, is named. Te...

Frederick Douglasss fiery speeches made him one of the most renowned and popular agitators of his age. Now, as a result of ground-breaking research...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously ...