Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unus...

I came from a family of barely solvent aristocrats So begins one of the most refreshingly honest memoirs to have appeared in recent years. Richard...

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape. One of the most end...

A new look at Henry VIII's second wife, Anne BoleynWill certainly make readers think again about what we really know about Henry VIII's most contro...

A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and De...

From monarchy to the worlds first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty to Europes new super rich, Russia has seen immen...

What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor.  'Buy th...

Master historian David McCullough''s classic book about some of history''s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Char...

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was ne...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Ur...

Late one evening in March 1924, a tipsy young nun was seen trying to slip into Balliol, an all-male Oxford college, just as the gates were about to...

On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son of King Georg...

'A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner.' Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence'From fighting for Nelson Mandela's freedom to exposing his betra...

An elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain. The Times hailed Rich...

Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it, not a penny was there in it, only ribbon round it.' Generations of children have grown up k...

'Utterly fascinating.' James Holland'First-class... The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never b...

A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a grou...

Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. ...

Lively history of British women aviators. Daily MailCompelling stories of female pioneers whose soaring ambition achieved firsts in the field of av...

The generals that defined the Nazi WarJames Lucas, military historian and British Army veteran, spoke with many veterans of both Axis and Allied ar...

A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonThis volumes 627 documents feature a vast assortment of topics. Jefferson write...

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the firs...

The second volume of Michel Leiriss hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and...