Biography: Historical, Political & Military

For you the war is over. Last of the Kriegies tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Pri...

Gaius Marius was one of the most remarkable and significant figures of the late Roman Republic. At a time when power tended to be restricted to a c...

In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an Engli...

This is the thrilling account of the last remaining Battle of Britain ace fighter pilot, Tom Ginger Neil. Neil was one of an elite band, nicknamed ...

One of Britains most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, ...

This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly milita...

Inherent in A Navy Flyers Creed is the power of inspiration: My country built the best airplane in the world and entrusted it to me. They trained m...

Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power. William Stephens was the illegitimate son of a Cornish servant girl; he sailed for Lisbon at...

The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a new foreword by Lord Lexden. Di...

Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when t...

After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was comma...

The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached ...

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circu...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Maud Berridge (18451907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sa...

Between 1483 and 1485 Viscount Francis Lovell was one of the most important and influential men in the government of his childhood friend Richard I...

Authorised biography of Welsh nationalist and activist John Barnard Jenkins, one of the most iconic figures in recent Welsh history. The leader of ...

Henry Opukahaia (ca. 17921818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 18791900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural...

Living Artfully is Downton Abbey during the Mad Men era, a slick and stylish book about the life, workings and staff of the three main estates of M...