David Crockett 
Colonel Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas [EPUB ebook] 

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or …

The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Champlin reinterprets Nero s enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious perfor …

First Published in 1985 Britain and Joseph Chamberlain is not simply the first biography of Joseph Chamberlain to be written from a radical standpoint but also an exercise in ‘counter -history’. What …

Graham Logie was brought up in Bruichladdich in the 1960s. This book tells how, as the Distillery Manager’s son, he saw village life, and the special access he had to the distillery.The 1960s probabl …

"Lydia Knight’s History" by means of Susa Young Gates is a compelling narrative that brings to life the awesome reviews of Lydia Knight, a courageous and resilient pioneer woman. Susa Young …

"Life of David W. Patten" is a biographical account written through Lycurgus A. Wilson, losing mild at the compelling and regularly unnoticed lifestyles of David W. Patten, a distinguished …

Ozawa Ichirō is one of the most important figures in Japanese politics, having held the positions of Chief Secretary of the Liberal Democrat Party and, after defection from the LDP, President of the …

_______________ »A riveting memoir about high society, alcohol and the corrosive effects of wealth» – Sunday Times »Impossible to put down … Never before has so much bad behaviour by people who …

Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar: th …

Although shortlived, Lysimachus» Hellespontine empire foreshadowed those of Pergamum and Byzantium. Lund»s book sets his actions significantly within the context of the volatile early Hellenistic w …