Biography: historical, political and military

Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet.

This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania.

Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late.

Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman:"e;The essence of this inexpressibly beautiful story will remain with me, I believe, for the rest of my life.

Shortlisted for the Guardian first book award and longlisted for the Orwell Prize'Important, brave and necessary' Naomi WolfIf you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.

Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler s most loyal acolytes.

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.

Michael Morpurgo has created a sweeping and dramatic story in the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

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.

'A classic that will help you face the demands of 21st century living' Stylist'Revolutionary' The Times------Susie Orbach's seminal work, now established as a worldwide classic, shows how fat is not about food, but rather about politics, defiance, protection, sex, strength, assertion, anger, love.

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.

'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 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.