Collected Biographies

'Highly readable . . . an intimate and varied account of fascinating stories of people at war' History of WarWar Stories is a fascinating account o...

Booked! The Gospel According to our Football Heroes is a funny, fascinating digest of over 120 footballer autobiographies. Authors John Smith and D...

'This long-hidden treasure-trove of letters, with its many wonderful new photographs and illustrations, is a revelation. The other woman's voice is...

2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Anthologies Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, t...

'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become s...

Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisionsthere is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroads an...

There is no denying it: motherhood splits a womans life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a we...

The six wives of Henry VIII brought queenship into the early modern era and his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I, found themselves in an almost un...

A groundbreaking look at the lives of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the most consequential father-son pair in American history, often in th...

This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in wo...

Every Hussar who has served could write a book about their experiences in the Army. Experiences that were good and some that were bad. Each book wo...

In the spring of 2002, motivated by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, National Football League stalwart Patrick Daniel Tillman turned down...

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina Salt Evelyn and Jewel Pepper Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 19...

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines.For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of ...

There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountere...

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influenti...

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Erikssons Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Medit...

As the world's demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize...

World War I was a slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Nevertheless there was no shortage of young men willing to sacrifice themselves for their co...

Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it was first broadcast...

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial...