books by subject
Historical Biographies starting 1901

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

Tin Ring: Love and Survival in the Holocaust

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

Going to the Wars

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

Secrets and Lies

Hitler's Last Days

Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

The Long Gray Line
