Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: Complete. With Illustrations [EPUB ebook] 

The interaction of poetry and politics has shaped Joan into a transnational myth dedicated to the most contradictory causes. No other character has inspired a more impressive list of writers, but no …

As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain”s diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete …

From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider exposé of the dangers of America”s hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy. When former presidential advisor Da …

Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of in …

Britain”s Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from ”arch-mediocrity” and establish him as the greatest political lead …

Russian physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov is most famous for his development of the concept of the conditional reflex and the classic experiment in which he trained a dog to salivate at …

Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but …

Betty Boop has been a beloved character since the 1930s. The quintessential "flapper, " her character was based on a handful of popular performers, and fans are still arguing who was the pr …

I stood in front of the headstone which read ‘Rita Rocca Nee Tomlin (15/6/1942 – 21/10/2020)’ and thought, ‘Is this all there is? Her name on a headstone with mine to follow.’I remembered a warm May …

This unsettling and challenging autobiography delves into the dark world of pornography, and the damage done by living a double-life. It articulates the pain and suffering experienced when, in the de …