Biography: Historical, Political & Military

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporariesand made him one of the most in...

The Chronicle of the Bourbon Duke Louis II is translated here into English for the first time. It gives a striking picture of the Hundred Years' Wa...

At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy, Roly Alderson decided that he ...

Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary would have shone. But they were ...

In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story ...

An adroit, intelligent and painstaking social history Poor Bickerton offers us a luxurious tapestry from which everyone interested in English soci...

An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary foreign-born populat...

Augustus: How the Roman Empire came aboutThe reign of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, has been seen, both by contemporaries and over the...

Henry Birdie Bowers realised his lifes ambition when he was selected for Captain Scotts Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his...

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his of...

Whether it was a swashbuckling footballer whose style earned him the nickname Crazy Horse, or as a television quiz show captain who rubbed shoulder...