Biography: Historical, Political & Military

James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful ...

The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on hi...

A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September ...

'Memories After My Death' is the story of Tommy Lapid, a well-loved and controversial Israeli figure who saw the development of the country from al...

A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrive...

Margaret Greville of Polesden Lacey, who styled herself ''Mrs Ronnie'', rose from obscure and humble origins to become a fabulously wealthy and amb...

'Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 199...

Georgi Dimitrov burst onto the international scene in 1933 as one of the Comintern operatives in Germany accused of the Reichstag fire. The Bulgari...

This groundbreaking work chronicles the authors quest to uncover previously unexplained areas of the life of T.E. Lawrence, the enigmatic desert fi...

Prince Prisdang Chumsai (18521935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siams political history, when its i...

The relationship between the Middle East and the West is one of the greatest issues of today and will remain so for the forseeable future. Interest...

An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous- and infamous-queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues t...

Elizabeth of Bohemia, known to some as the Winter Queen and to others as the Queen of Hearts, was one of those rare figures whose personality still...

Napoleon arrived on St Helena in October 1815 aboard the British 74-gun warship HMS Northumberland. For the first six weeks he stayed at the Briars...

Curt Riess was a Jewish Berlin journalist who fled to the USA in 1936. He was a noted war correspondent and returned to Germany in 1945 to witness ...

Over 300 anecdotes on Napoleon Bonaparte, his life, his battles, his marriages and his exiles. The Anecdotes range from the unusual, the macabre, ...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who dreamed of justice and then ...

The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has a fascination which is universal. But the story is not only popular, it is controve...

With Foreword by S R NathanA scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty those were the apt words chosen by a reporter ...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful study of the inner life of David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist leader responsible for the creati...

A provocative reappraisal of Wellington''s military career, his victory at Waterloo, and the source of his genius as a general Arthur Wellesley, Du...

Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska''''s Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberat...

George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the Mexican American Generation (19301960)...

A landmark biography of the charismatic king beloved of fourteenth-century England Edward III (13121377) was the most successful European ruler of ...

A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for fer...

When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military...

Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. A legend in his own lifetime, he has inspired many hundreds of boo...