On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

As Hitler’s bombs threatened London during World War Two eight-year-old David Merron was removed f..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..