Biography: historical, political and military

CALLING ALL WOMEN!

For hundreds of years, the Scottish soldier has been recording his experiences.

General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times.

'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst.

The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century.

The Commandos were Britain's first-ever special forces, formed in 1940 using volunteers from all three services.

A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and the quest for immortality from the bestselling author and sceptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death.

Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed .

The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England.

'Broken Blue Line is a rollercoaster of a ride depicting the realities of twenty-first-century policing on the front-line.

This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC's popular television drama Poldark.

Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction.

Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts.

The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes.

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The QueenThe Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British people to dig to the very depths of their resolve.

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city.

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century.

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II.

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.

For many years the story of Cromie has been overshadowed by histories of the greater tragedy found on the Western Front in World War I.

When the Great War broke out, Kitchener, with the foresight lacking in many of his contemporaries, insisted that it would last at least three years and that he must raise an army of 3 million men.

The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate.

The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction.

There can't be many people who have never heard of Nelson Mandela.

David Shaw sees himself as an Average Joe.

Enormously readable.

* THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *';Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps' Financial Times A REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.

A riveting tale of Dutch polar explorer William Barents and his three harrowing Arctic expeditions the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.

The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.

KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE';Beautifully told John le Carre ';More than just history' Michael PalinIn this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.

';A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'JOHN GRISHAM on David GrannsThe Lost City of Z';Awonderful storyof a lost age of heroic exploration'Sunday TimesonThe Lost City of Z';Marvellous .

The Observer Book of the YearEvery Day Is Extra is John Kerry's personal story.

She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old.

THESUNDAY TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ';Acompelling read' - Financial TimesIn the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net.

To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable.

THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN.

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ';Excellent book skilful and meticulous' David Aaronovitch,The Times Hailed as ';authoritative' and ';essential', Trump Revealedis the indispensable andupdated biography of the 45th president of the United States.

A riveting, unvarnished and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war.

Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation.

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening.

Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

1939 - Landesausstellung: Unweit des Festgeländes in Zürich wird an einem Spätsommerabend ein Säugling in einer Kartonschachtel aufgefunden.

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "e;Spearhead"e; division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.