Biography: historical, political and military

The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown's rise to become Prime Minister.

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.

To coincide with the Channel 4 series to be aired at the end of this year - David Starkey's 'Monarchy' charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.

Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.

Convicted on charges of protest sabotage in 1964, Hugh Lewin spent seven years in prison in South Africa, secretly recording his experiences and those of his fellow inmates on the pages of his Bible.

Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions.

A fully updated edition of Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, the first major biography of David Cameron, and now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government.

Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary.

A new analysis of the strengths, organization, weapons, and tactics of the Roman army Constantine inherited and his military reforms.

My Life Story by Becky Lynn Black isn't a celebrity autobiography.

This is the story of Richard Longfield Vowell, an audacious and intrepid young English adventurer who abandoned his studies at Oxford in 1817 to fight against the Spanish Empire that had ruled Latin America for 300 years.

Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important.

Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years.

Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student.

Raising children is hard, but when tragedy strikes, what was once difficult becomes almost impossible.

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead and Lieutenant John Chard had fame thrust upon them, as did the place known as Rorke's Drift, which before 1879 was an unknown homestead situated in the middle of the South African veld.

This in-depth biography explores the brief and turbulent reign of King James II and the growing opposition that led to the Glorious Revolution.

In July 2004, Pastor Mark Nuckols, also an Army Reserve chaplain, received a message from the US government informing him his reserve unit would soon be activated and deployed to Iraq.

'A triumph a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND.

Recent books, many by Pen and Sword, such as Shot At Dawn have highlighted the shocking cases of young British soldiers in the Great War being executed by their own side.

“[A] powerful autobiography from a Russian veteran of Stalingrad, Kursk and numerous other battles .

The great retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in August 1914 is one of the most famous in military history, and it is justly celebrated.

His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s.

This is the story of the authors uncle, David Maltby and the crew with whom he flew on the famous Dam Raid in 1943.

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10.

The author, a young conscript, fought with The Glorious Glosters at the legendary Imjin River battle.

A Bomber Command classic depicting the deep feelings associated with the human cost of the air war in World War II.

In one day life as I had known it for years had changed.

' thelred's reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler.

The first full biography of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, 18th-century partners in crime who terrorized the Caribbean: "e;Excellent .

A Royal Navy sailor recounts his adventuresome life at sea in this colorful memoir offering a rare look at early nineteenth century naval life.

Dans cette autobiographie bouleversante, Monique ZAPATA OTTAVIANI retrace le parcours d'une femme déracinée dès l'enfance, confrontée aux blessures de l'exil, aux épreuves de l'intégration, et à la force des liens familiaux.

In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war.

This is the autobiography of Alan Deere, New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot who saw action from the Munich Crisis to the invasion of France in 1944.

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout WWII.

'This book for me is a warning as well as a reminder.

In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all.