Biography: historical, political and military

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.