Biography: Historical, Political & Military

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...

King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewiss new biography aims to become a definitive account...

John Manners, Marquess of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War, losing both hat and wig. A commander of skill and coura...

If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, youll love What She Ate Elle Did you know that...

The expertly written text offers an insight into the private and public life of the heir to the throne of England, from his early years at Buckingh...

Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it w...

On the morning of 20 March 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of 'The Yorkshire Witch' was hanged upon York's 'New Drop' gallows befo...

Far more than an encyclopedia, this treasury tells the rich stories of the people who made America's history--and adds context with lush photograph...

9 April 1960 was the day that changed Susie Cazenove's life the day her father, David Pratt, shot the Prime Minister of South Africa, Dr Hendrik V...

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and...

Shortlisted for the 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's firs...

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he l...

Born into a loving working-class home, Lynn Ruanes early years were idyllic, but all that changed when two shocking incidents in her teenage years ...

NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by con...

Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment t...

An illustrated biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the foremost engineer in an age of great engineers, when the Industrial Revolution w...

Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (With all due respect, I don't get confused), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and ...

Anne Boleyn is perhaps the most engaging of Henry VIIIs Queens. For her he would divorce his wife of some twenty years standing, he would take on t...