Biography: historical, political and military

The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.

'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.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion.

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

The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in AfricaIn the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives.

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.

Growing up in the suburbs of Dublin, Aidan Storey was the youngest of seven, a much-loved, happy child who enjoyed family life and all the usual rough-and-tumble games he played with friends in his garden.

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.

'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.

Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture.

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.

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.

'Superb.

A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries.

For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves.

When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before.

Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance.

A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic.

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system.

They were like a band of brothers.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, sipped tea in the upmarket Millennium Mayfair hotel near the American Embassy in London - tea that had been spiked with a rare radioactive isotope called Polonium 210.

Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India.