Biography: historical, political & military

Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire Windrush. Now published for the first time, this is his stirring life story. On 22nd June 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1027 passengers a...

Special Forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the heard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure. NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo o...

A daughter of Cambodia remembers... Soon to be a major film co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt, this is the unforgettable narrative of war crimes and desperate actions of young girl determined to survive against all the odds. A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Unt...

Through Rob Lewis' own experience, this tells the story of an essential instrument in the fight against terrorism, that of covert intelligence gathering. He describes true accounts of secret operations carried out in Ireland by clandestine units. Fishers of Men is the true account of secret opera...

During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany.

A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, tak...

Award-winning and critically acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport turns to the tragic story of the daughters of the last Tsar of all the Russias, slaughtered with their parents at Ekaterinburg. 'A well-written gem...' }Daily Express{. Not final jacket image. On 17 July 1918, four young women walke...

Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20th October 1940. In the radio speech after this meeting, Pétain said 'It is I alone who will be jud...

As one of the first men to devote his life and creative energy to photography, Frank Sutcliffe moved away from the confines of Victorian photographic conventions, which were based on artifice, and set himself the task of photographing the people and the countryside that he saw around him in as tr...

For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she reflects on her life in two German...