It's hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. But when a stranger chall..

David Berridge returns with more stories from his time as a prison officer at HMP Parkhurst giving a..

In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House an elegant mansion wit..

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

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

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In the far south of New Zealand in the remote Fiordland village of Manapouri Ruth Shaw runs two tiny..

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In this follow-up to the bestselling CLANLANDS Sam and Graham document their journey across New Zeal..

Operation Market Garden the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine ..

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From royal expert and royal butler Grant Harrold comes an unforgettable memoir and portrait of a roy..

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In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

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

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

The SAS is staffed by the toughest and most resourceful soldiers in the world - only the cream of th..

Throughout Maya Angelou’s life from her childhood in Stamps Arkansas to her world travels as a be..

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

Things No One Taught Us About Love is a concise audiobook that distils the ideas found in Vex King�..

Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930 the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five..

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Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011 Suzannah Worth discovered amongst h..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

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

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

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Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy John Darwin did the unthinkable - he paddled o..

Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met..

Happily married and running a successful business Peter Berry's life changed when at the age of 50 h..

Charlie Hedges is a pioneer in the field of missing persons over a career spanning nearly four decad..

Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of..

After World War II Sydney experienced a chillingly calculated crime wave thanks to discontent mixed ..

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April Captain Tom Moore 99-year-old Second World War..

Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing ..

Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain ..

Every day Dr Rachel Clarke tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives...

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

A joint operation between Britain and France the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain ter..

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994 where five members of a..

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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary says Dr Da..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

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