At 18, Tony Fowle enlisted; 12 years later he was a decorated officer with a Military Cross. From desert battles to Himalayan frontiers and war-torn Korea, his vivid letters trace a life of danger, loyalty and adventure in this extraordinary memoir of a soldier's global journey.
A new appraisal of the role of tanks in India and Burma in the Second World War. Often regarded primarily as an infantryman's war in dense jungle and through monsoon conditions, this book shows that this is far from the whole story.
Truth is no longer a universal fact-it's a matter of perception. It explores how algorithms, emotions, and identity politics have replaced reason... Læs mere
Michael R. Payne’s remarkable autobiography takes readers inside the transformation of global sport from a gentleman’s... Læs mere
“Tamesis”, a lyrical journey along the River Thames, where water, history and humanity interlace in both intimate and expansive verse composed by Edmund Hall, a lifelong sailor and volunteer RNLI lifeboatman.
What makes a man of God go to war, put themselves in extreme danger, giving care to wounded and dying? This is the story of Chaplains in World War 2.
After his father’s death, a son finds photographs that unravel five generations of family history. As perspectives shift, the family piece together memories fractured by grief, anger, and wartime trauma.
In post-war Austria, a fugitive Nazi and a war crimes investigator face each other across a kitchen table - and only one may live. As their war stories unfold, truth and guilt twist together in a deadly reckoning as history's ghosts demand their due.
In vivid and lively style, Jeremy Nicholas, one of the UK's most respected writers on the piano and pianists, presents a chronological survey of The Great Piano Makers from Cristofori to the modern day.
Hunched in body but towering in power, Robert Cecil shaped the fate of two dynasties. In the world of Shakespeare, Raleigh, and Jonson, one quiet man pulled the strings. Statesman, spymaster, survivor - his life was England’s history.
Erroll Prior-Palmer was one of the few men to reach the highest levels of both the British Army and British industry. A brilliant but unconventional leader, he combined battlefield command with a restless appetite for innovation that would later reshape global trade.