Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Arrested in 1962 as South Africas apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and Afri...

In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radi...

In 1728, in the wake of his fathers death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Irelands mighty house of Annesley ...

Jane Whorwood (1612 - 1684) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire...

This is the autobiography of Reginald Levy, a British pilot who reached a total of 25,090 flying hours in over forty years of civil, military and c...

The President who freed the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding Souths bid to create a separate Confederacy. The tel...

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotlands turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of...

In 1836, Charles Henry Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years'' hard labour. He had been convict...

Mary Allen, once a window-smashing suffragette, went on to become a pioneer policewoman, helping create Britains first female police force. Honoure...

Pierre Gouthiere: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court celebrates the life of Pierre Gouthiere (1732-1813), considered to be one of the best Parisia...

This compelling new account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the old monster and his reign. The monster displayed here is, at th...

Following the extraordinary career of a Second World War bomber pilot, Flying Among Heroes brings together adventure and human daring with the hars...

Before Diana Mitford's disgrace as a social pariah, she was a celebrated member of the Bright Young Things, moving at the centre of 1920s and '30s ...

Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined the German Army and was commiss...

A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of th...

In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scot...

'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is ...

One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby chil...