Collected Biographies

Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federa...

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers. It traces their lives from their upbringi...

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von St...

'A beautifully illustrated tome honouring 100 exceptional women dating back to 630BC' RedA Stylist Must-read Book of 2018'This finely illustrated b...

When Amy E. Wallens southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From ...

During les trente glorieuses - a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis - Paris was not only the...

Before the Civil War, America had undergone a technological revolution that made large-scale industry possible, yet, except for the expanding reach...

The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure. -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Hugh Kenner (1923...

Reveals some of the thrilling developments that have transformed biology since the 1960s.  Highlights the challenges ahead for biologists but sugge...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MESSI , RONALDO ANDNEYMARThe world's greatest players, head to head.Lionel Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo haver...

Behind every great woman is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women ar...

The reflections in Sons and Mothers delve deep into the often close, but sometimes troubled, relationships that exist between mothers and sons. Wit...

Two FCAs (Fellow Chartered Accountants) is an autobiography, telling the story of the author and his brother Brian. Originally started as a tribute...

Americas Literary Legends is a concise, yet truly distinctive and comprehensive review of 50 authors and poets who shaped American literature from ...

Stars burn hot, bright, and then go out forever. Buttheir legacy remains. Like the smoky haze of a rock-n-roll arena show, a cloudof mystery and in...

On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitaris...

In Baring Witness, Holly Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the jo...

Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered highly dangerous? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Siby...

These eight women made remarkable contributions: Laura Keene challenged tradition in 1858 by heading her own dramatic troupe; her career was ruined...

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, no...

For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War ...

Captivating portraits of extraordinary individuals Famous Buckeyes are recognized by practically everyone. They range from presidents and inventors...

In The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, physicians put down their stethoscopes and pick up their pens to share some of the most frightening ...

This book describes the intense rivalry--and collaboration--of the four players who created the golden era when USSR chess players dominated the...

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

Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces the development of the International Chess Tournament...

Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years...