Biography: Historical, Political & Military

My Boyhood War, Warsaw 1944 is an intensely personal account of Hryniewicz life in Poland during the Second World War, centered primarily on the Wa...

On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unw...

David Balme will be forever known as the 20-year-old hero who, on 9 May 1941, boarded a German U-boat in mid-Atlantic, and captured one of the grea...

Among nineteenth-century womens rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped he...

More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated ...

When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who cheated the h...

Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. This 'living legacy' is the subject of intense, ongoing debate bo...

'In the Ring' deals with impossibly devious plots and characters - ambitious presidents and prime ministers from all corners of the world, some det...