Biography: historical, political & military

Catherine was an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at 14 and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful and captivating women in history. In this book, this eternally fascinating woman is returned to life.

A celebration of King Charles's first year, exploring the achievements and challenges of the modern monarchy, from royal expert and bestselling author Robert Hardman.

After visiting Japan in 1902 and 1907 and discovering two magnificent cherry trees in the garden of his family home in Kent in 1919, Collingwood Ingram fell in love with cherry blossoms, and dedicated much of his life to their cultivation and preservation. On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for ne...

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), was the greatest press magnate in history and a genius who invented modern popular journalism. By the time of his tragically early death at 57 in August 1922, Northcliffe had founded the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and had also owned The T...

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners....

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners....

Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secr...

Winston Churchill towered over his own age, when he was variously described as 'the saviour of his country', 'the leader of humanity', or 'the man of the century'. More remarkably, he has towered over fifty years and more since his since his death in 1965. He overshadows both his country, whose r...

Winston Churchill towered over his own age, when he was variously described as 'the saviour of his country', 'the leader of humanity', or 'the man of the century'. More remarkably, he has towered over fifty years and more since his since his death in 1965. He overshadows both his country, whose r...

Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so ...