Biography: Historical, Political & Military

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to give it its full name, owes its origins to the 'Pour le Merite' (Blue Max), an imperial award dating back ...

Kevin Boyle (19432010) was one of the worlds great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ...

The Roman Empire was a spectacular polity of unprecedented scale which stretched from Scotland to Sudan and from Portugal to Persia. It survived fo...

Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Co...

This book is an account of forensic consultant Paul O''Sullivan''s role in helping nail South Africa''s most powerful policeman: Jackie Selebi, for...

The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Lesliea titan of publishing and an unsung hero of womens suffrageconnecting Gilded Age o...

Sir Christopher Wren (16321723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to ar...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

Whereas the life of her husband, the dashing Napoleonic general and diplomat Charles de Flahaut, is well known, Margaret has remained in the shadow...

Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become...

The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his no...

In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement...

The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of 1914, namely the world p...