Biography: historical, political and military

The award-winning Civil War historian explores the battle between two strikingly different generals: "e;Fighting Joe"e; Hooker and Robert E.

September 11, 2001 saw the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil, leaving us asking questions such as: Why did God permit such a thing to happen?

This collection of Reagan's words and writings-both public and private-offers an intimate portrait of the president, actor, icon, and family man.

A profile of the Bush political clan patriarch-who he was and what he stood for, the examples he set, the events he shared, and the lives he touched.

A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.

Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care.

The inspiration for the upcoming movie WAR MACHINE, starring Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Ben Kingsley (streaming on Netflix from 26 May).

The inside story of today's Dambusters, 617 Squadron RAF, at war in Afghanistan.

The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.

Nine men.

'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily armed rebels with bamboo sticks and home-made grenades, and you'll be asking the question.

For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon.

*With a foreword by former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond*The touching and ground-breaking story of the Queen's childhood as told by her nanny, revealing the royal family's life before The Crown.

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Gritty, but witty, description of life and death on the front line in Afghanistan, by the bestselling author of BULLET MAGNET.

The classic, No.

Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them.

China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told.

During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist.

Discover this lyrical, sweeping and powerful book on the Bhutto family, an extraordinary, Kennedy-esque dynasty that is central to the story of modern Pakistan.

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters.

Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation.

Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian CowenDespite a high profile at the centre of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader.

Ir ne N mirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction.

Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for.

Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all.

Hugo!

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER'A story about hope, imagination and resilience'GUARDIANAn award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.

He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists.

This is Andr Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times.

Epsom Downs, 3rd May, 1769: a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post.

Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma.

AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008: in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of miles from home, Lance Corporal Matt Croucher, a Royal Marine with 40 Commando, accidentally activates a grenade whilst on a covert patrol behind enemy lines.

Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission.

There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth.

*** The Sunday Times bestseller ***'Vividly imagined and prodigiously researched' Helen Davies, Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'Such a rewarding read' John Preston, Daily Mail, Books of the Year'This odd, secretive man is brought to life', Robbie Millen, The Times, Books of the YearMaxwell Knight was a paradox.

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government.

POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government.

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.

In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war.

Now with a new afterword from the author.

Genghis Khan is history's greatest conqueror.

'A big, bold approach to the writing of narrative non-fiction .

WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London.

What has made women unhappy in the last decade?

The son of a carpenter, Edward Heath broke the patrician mould of Tory leaders.

The tragic true story behind the forthcoming film My Duchess starring Joan Collins and Isabella Rossellini'Hugely entertaining' - Telegraph'A page turner' - Times Literary Supplement'Definitively brilliant' - Evening StandardWallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, died in Paris on 24 April 1986, just weeks short of her ninetieth birthday.

___________________________________'Scintillating, provocative.

This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon s military might.