Biography: Historical, Political & Military

This remarkable story of Jim Almonds (Gentleman Jim) is set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy and France and recounts his formative rol...

Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. Following ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. 'Poetry was his o...

Mastering the Wolf is a history of policing and law enforcement over the last 40-plus years in the UK and beyond. In an engaging, gritty, and au...

This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando. SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became ...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry V's invasion of France, in August ...

In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American mu...

Existing studies of the Potter family tend to see Richard Potter through the lens of his most famous daughter, the socialist Beatrice Webb, or thro...

The Untold Story of R gina Diana tells of the rebellious daughter of working-class French-Italian parents from a run-down area of Geneva who, train...