Biography: Historical, Political & Military

From a staunchly Republican family, Michael OHanrahans outwardly quiet and serious demeanour concealed a burning desire to see an independent Irela...

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the...

Commander Edward John Smith's career had been a remarkable example of how a man from a humble background could get far in the world. Born to a work...

Did you know that Winston Churchill spent his twenty-fifth birthday as a prisoner of war? Or that he fought in the trenches during the First World ...

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as ...

Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine...

Katherine Swynford sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court? This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this ...

Riversdale Robert 'Barney' Barnfather was an RAF fighter pilot who flew Spitfires in action almost continuously from November 1941 until the end of...

Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butchers son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle yet, t...

Machiavellianused to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitilessis never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name bec...

The beautiful sister of Henry VIII, the spoiled darling of the court, Princess Mary Tudor was married off to the ailing King of France against her ...

Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early dea...

Churchill''s Rebels is a heart-breaking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life. ...