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Author: Richard B. Morris & Eileen McGann

Dick Morris, who helped President Bill Clinton win re-election in 1996, is the most prominent political commentator today, and one of the most fearless predictors of future trends on the political landscape. In "Condi vs ...

Author: Julia Keay

The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible, Cruden's Concordance -- still going strong 260 years later.Cruden's Concordance ...

Author: Ronald Reagan & Douglas Brinkley

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the ...

Author: Michael Walsh

Presents a tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. This book shows how all eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, ...

Author: Nigel Hamilton

Nigel Hamilton's account of Bill Clinton's early life and career - Bill Clinton: An American Journey - drew widespread praise. Now, in Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency, Nigel Hamilton charts the experience of the 4 ...

Author: John Campbell

Covers the eleven and a half years of Margaret Thatcher's momentous premiership. This is the study of the Thatcher Government from its hesitant beginning to its dramatic end. Drawing on the memoirs and diaries of Mrs Tha ...

Author: Alison Weir

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, t ...

Author: Richard Holmes

Sir John French is a figure who has always aroused controversy. Douglas Haig despised him, while Churchill thought his leadership qualities unsurpassed. Despite being the most capable cavalry leader of his generation, po ...

Author: Mary S. Lovell

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15 and when she was widowed at 16, she was still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more tha ...

Author: Alexander Waugh

From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most ecce ...

Author: Greg Hallett

Describes Hitler's pyschological, sexual and intelligence training in Britain, his sex with men and women, his hands on murders, his work as an undercover British Intelligence Agent his funding and support by the British ...

Author: Zelman Cowen

Sir Zelman was Vice-Chancellor of two universities, including the University of Queensland during times of turbulent student protest, and was appointed Governor-General of Australia in 1977.An outstanding scholar and con ...

Author: Frank Gardner

Powerful personal story by the BBC's security correspondent about the attempt on his life, his remarkable recovery and the journeys that have taken him there... On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers ...

Author: Rae Wear

A saviour to some, reviled by others, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen became the butt of jokes and even assassination attempts. His influence spread well beyond Queensland, and in the mid-1970s he put an unknown french polisher ...

Author: Annping Chin

For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame, Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the ...

Author: Sir Edmund Hillary

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF

AN ORDINARY MAN WHO BECAME THE

CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORER

Adventurers the world over have been inspired by the achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man ever to set fo ...

Author: Julie Summers

Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic, but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai. While a brilliant performance, it owed more to fiction than fact, ...

Author: Coryne Hall

The vivacious Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. As a young girl, she had enjoyed romantic troika rides, and passionate nights, w ...

Author: Ben Macintyre

Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. H ...

Author: Josephine Ross

From her childhood, shadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship to the fantastical flirtations of her old age, Elizabeth refused to commit herself to any man. ...