Biography: historical, political and military

Diana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen.

The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the untimely death of America's most popular president, Kennedy: His Life & Legacy is a candid look at the charisma and excitement that captured the nation during John F.

The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place.

The outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes following Ronald Reagan's death demonstrated the love and admiration people still have for our nation's 40th president.

One of Essence's Best Books of the YearNAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary WorkWith a foreword by Speaker Nancy PelosiThere was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and tothe left behind.

"e;The selection of remembered events from a cross section of Germans provides a very human account of instances in war.

The long government service of Francois Boissy d'Anglas from 1789 to 1826 is unique, and his abundant writing provides a new look at the great drama of the French Revolution era.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

They are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten – Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World War leaders.

Keen to learn but short on time?

Paperback edition of the first modern biography of one of the greatest military strategists of all time.

Although much has been written about Richard Nixon the man and the politician, comparatively little attention has been paid to Nixon the public speaker.

On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria.

Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.

Take the journey with me from a kid in a small farming community in the Midwest to the jungles of southeast Asia, where I am proud to say I served with the U.

The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is the first English-language translation of a crucial memoir of the dying days of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Always marked out for high rank, Robert Laycock came into his own when selected to raise 8 Commando, a new ‘crack’ unit early in the Second World War.