Social & Urban History Biographies

Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography

By Peter de la Billière

Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens

By Fraser, Antonia

Blood Sisters: French Revolution in Women's Memory

By Marilyn Yalom

War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003

By Clive Aslet

The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays

By Justin Rosenberg

Brecht: A Choice Of Evils

By Martin Esslin

Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple

By John Sculley, John A. Byrne

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By Elizabeth Foyster

Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today

By Derek Owusu

The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

By Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot, Skloot, Rebecca

Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anita Anand

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

By Robert S. Norris

Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe

By Silvan S. Schweber

Slim: The Standardbearer

By Ronald Lewin

Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945: A Study in German Culture

By Paul Lawrence Rose

Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files

By Jon Wiener

Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe

By JULIAN THOMPSON

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth-Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk

By Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK)

The End of Christianity

By John W. Loftus

Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

By Johnnie Clark

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

By Gordon Fraser

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

By Iris Origo

Lancaster to Berlin

By Walter Thompson

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

By Harry Leslie Smith