During a football match no one pays the referee or the referee's assistants any attention - until...

All over the world, many seemingly intelligent people have made foolish decisions based on delusi...

My Sea Lady is Graeme Ogden's moving, and often amusing, memoir of his command of HMS Lady Madele...

Over a hundred years ago Somerville and Ross galloped across the pages of popular Irish literatur...

The public perception of the Guards is of soldiers used for just ceremonial duties.The Drum Horse...

Parliamentary lobbyist Damian Beaufort is a professionalmanipulator. When Labour wins power his T...

TheDay They Ate The Zoo is James Ellery's record of his senior military UN appointmentsin two of ...

The United Kingdom is a treasure-trove of military acquisitions - ranging from the bizarre to the...

For an unintentional politician, David Freud has had more impact on the United Kingdom than most....

TheDiscontented captures the drama and heroism of the 17th and 18th century Hungarian uprisings a...

Always a dog lover, Liz Cowley has now turned her charming and insightful poetic skills to man's ...

A rocky cliff face, the tragic death of his father, a spell in a harsh young offenders' instituti...

After a troubled start in life Seb Faber's prospects lookedbleak.But an unexpected City job offer...

Paula Godwin wasn't to know that her once secure life willspiral downwards when, finding a Post-i...

Parliamentary lobbyist Damian Beaufort is aprofessional manipulator. When Labour wins power his T...

Saigon, 1963. With the tensions of war starting to swirl, rookie photographer Ned Rivers lands in...

To give political legitimacy to his Empire, Emperor Napoléon I created an enduring image of Napol...

Living a respectable life in Cheltenham, former terrorist Tariq Al Hashmi thinks his previous lif...

This reprint of Thomas Seccombe's highly successful 1880 book will resonate with all who have an ...

Few businessmen can have had as interesting career as Martin Broughton. From a modest start his a...

Nestling in undergrowth by the bank of the Thames, an old wartime pillbox, relic of the nation's ...

When Dreams Collide isNicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia...

In 1925 a fire ripped through the Marylebone premises of Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Little was le...

Dick Olver's initial response to being offered a job at BP was to turn it down. Luckily he didn't...