Biography: historical, political & military

The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former sla...

A black porter whips a white Englishman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. A Mauritanian diver is dispatched to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose. From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor ...

Hasler, leader of the famous 'Cockleshell Heroes' and one of only two who came back alive, designed the canoes which were used in the operation, and recruited and trained the men. But Hasler was much more than just a Cockleshell Hero.

Based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family - of a loner, a lover, a leader. Revelatory, unsettling and compulsively readable, this is the most timely and in...

'Born of the Desert' is a vivid memoir of warfare in the pitiless desert wastes of North Africa during World War Two. It explores the operations of the forerunners of the modern SAS as they took on the Afrika Korps and beat them throughout 1942 and 1943. Born of the Desert is a classic account of...

Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents an...

Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents an...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes the untold story of the Sherwood Rangers. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vu...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes the untold story of the Sherwood Rangers. It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vu...

The compelling, untold, and definitive account of the Cameron tenure, gathered from hundreds of interviews in the twilight of the first Conservative term of government for 13 years. The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Ca...