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The Life of Ian Fleming

by John Pearson

It is now 50 years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducting 007 as the glamorous secret agent who would become the single most profitable movie character in the history...


Jefferson Davis, American

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography 2000

by William J. Cooper

From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle.

Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the...


Letters of Napoleon

by J. M. Thompson

Not that all Napoleons letters, or even many of them, are of a selfrevealing kind. In youth he had few confidants in middle age he had little to confide. la the stress of business and war he soon shed the idealism...


Memoirs of My Life and Times

by John Charles Frémont

Civil War general Fremont recounts his early years, when he explored the American West from 1828 to 1846 with Kit Carson.


Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science

by Christoph Irmscher

A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the nineteenth century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and...


Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

by Richard Taylor

This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major theatres of the war, and provides a unique view of the Reconstruction period....


Twenty Years A-Growing

by Maurice O'Sullivanan

O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. "The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without...


Another Winter, Another Spring: A Love Remembered

by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

Swedish-born Louise Flach finds herself in the heart of the Russian Revolution. This is a tale of love and loyalty tested by great hardship and suffering.


Sordid Sex Lives

by Nigel Cawthorne

What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this...


George Washington: Gentleman Warrior

by Stephen Brumwell

'I am a warrior'. These were the uncompromising words that George Washington chose to describe himself in May 1779, at the height of the Revolutionary War against Britain. It's an image very different to the...


Edith Cavell

by Diana Souhami

Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border....


Titans of the Middle East

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives of some of the most influential figures in the History of the Middle East. In short profiles, spanning the centuries, he provides...


Titans of History

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from conquerors, poets, kings, empresses and whores to psychopaths, composers...


Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism

by Rosalind Miles & Robin Cross

From earliest times, women gained access to leadership in times of conflict and proved themselves equal to the challenge of commanding during war. Women leaders abounded in the ancient world from Ireland to...


Takur Ghar - The SEALs and Rangers on Roberts Ridge, Afghanistan 2002

by Leigh Neville & Johnny Shumate

In the early morning hours of March 4, 2002, a reconnaissance team of US Navy SEALs from the Tier One Naval Special Warfare Development Group attached to Joint Special Operations Task Force 11 attempted to infiltrate...


Falls Memories: A Belfast Life

by Gerry Adams

Adams has written a lovely volume that is valuable not only for its content and vision but for the glimpse it offers into what makes him-politician and revolutionary-tick.-Kirkus ReviewsR


Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity

by Anthony Sampson

These political biographies are intended to analyse in depth the real men lurking behind the personality cults of great contemporary statesmen. Their purpose is to explain how such political leaders as Mao Tse-Tung...


Sophia of Hanover: From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain, 1630-1714

by J. N. Duggan

The detailed memoirs and letters of a gifted and prolific chronicler provide an insider’s view of life for the top echelons of society in the 16th century Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630–1714), granddaughter...


Warlord: Tojo Against the World

by Edwin P. Hoyt

This biography of Japanese army general and dictatorial prime minister Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) covers his early, easy World War II victories (including Pearl Harbor); his subsequent crushing defeats; and his...


Che Guevara: A Biography

by Daniel James & Henry Butterfield Ryan

James provides an in-depth look at the Latin American revolutionary's formative years, and proceeds to examine Guevara's successes and failures in his international battles, to his desperate hours as a dying...