Biography: historical, political and military

Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green.

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life.

The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history.

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation.

The untold story of Dick Cheney: the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in American history.

Few books have captured the atmosphere of daily medieval life as well or as movingly as A Fool and His Money.

Each chapter in this remarkable consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures.

The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.

UNTO THE SONS is Gay Talese's stirring epic of his family's exodus from a tiny village in southern Italy, caught up in the tide of young men who crossed the Atlantic to America at the end of the 19th century.

As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair.

'F *** ing brilliant.

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' ObserverThe story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics.

At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world.

Dieses eBook: "Die Geschichte meines Lebens (Autobiografie)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Elly aus Schwenningen reist 1938 nach Wien, um ihre Tante zu unterstützen, und lernt dort die Jüdin Lea Grünfeld kennen, mit der sie sich befreundet.

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist.

Tony Benn is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour Party.

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh.

A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most trusted spies.

Archibald Wavell was born a few years before Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and died shortly after the end of the Second World War (1883-1950).

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISKSeven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work.

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the entire world population.

Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone.

Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front.

Quakers have long been respected for their simplicity, integrity, truthfulness, non violence and undestanding of the need for silence.

'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers.

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf.

In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia.

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned.

Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era.

Presented together now for the first time, Laurens van der Post's collected writings will reveal as never before the fullness of his perceptive, wise and remarkably consistent vision.

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river.

'We believed in ourselves so much, no one ever panicked, even when the situation looked so desperate.

At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps.

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book.

Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes.

The story of America's elite military unit told by one of its founding membersThey are the U.

NOBODY IN PARTICULAR is the hand-on-heart, honest, charming and occasionally tear-inducingly tragic, often laugh out loud funny story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s and '60s as the youngest child in a large and somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish family: Cherry's father would while away the hours playing his guitar in the outside loo until the pubs opened while her mother seemed to be either menopausal or depressed or both, and devoted most of her energies into saving for a divorce or her own business - whichever came cheapest!

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England.

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.

In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet.

'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients.

A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception.

"e;Why didn't you try to escape?

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.