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Prabhudas Gandhi was born in 1901 in Porbandar to Chhaganlal Gandhi and Kashiben and like many members of his family, spent his childhood in South Africa at the Phoenix Ashram.The memoir, Jeevan nu Parodh in Gujarati was serialized in a hand-written journal called Madhpudo (The Beehive) that...

The wildly engaging new history of the British monarchy from bestselling historian Lucy Worsley. 'Fabulously enjoyable... a great big treat of a book.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Filled with nuggets of historical delights... highly readable and thoughtfully curated.' DAILY MAIL 'A glorious, glorious book...

Born in Rhodesia, raised on rebellion and rock ’n roll — Angus Shaw came of age as his country tore itself apart. Drafted into a brutal bush war, he and his friends — the “Mutoko boys” — faced madness, death, and disillusionment in a land slipping into chaos. From the smoky bars and marijuana fields of rural Rhodesia to the front lines of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts, Shaw lived and reported it all — Idi Amin’s Uganda, Somalia’s warlords, Liberia’s anarchy, and Rwanda’s unspeakable genocide.

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex-obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author's prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh-opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.

The astonishing true story of Thomas Cochrane – naval hero, political radical and inspiration for Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey – whose audacity at sea, scandals on land and battles across empires make for a tale as thrilling as any novel. Cochrane’s life was even more remarkable than...

The thrilling and moving classic memoir of a spitfire pilot in World War Two, read by broadcasting legend Jeremy Vine. This is the true story of Richard Hillary, immortalised in Sebastian Faulks' bestselling triple biography, The Fatal Englishman. In The Last Enemy, Richard Hillary tells his...

'In 1924, into the tiny town of Warrnambool, which then had a population of a fraction under 4000 people, there came a travelling salesman...' Australians of a certain generation all know Fletcher Jones - the stores, the clothing, the daggy dad slacks - but not many people know the extraordinary...

Uncover the little-known story of Gouverneur Morris, the brilliant yet overlooked Founding Father whose visionary ideas from writing key components of the US Constitution to helping create America’s first bank to holding an unwavering stance against slavery shaped the nation’s future. When...

Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country. In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor...

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002).

On November 4, 1979, Iranian radicals stunned the world by storming the U.S. Embassyin Tehran and taking the entire diplomatic staff hostage. The attackers called themselves the“Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line” and claimed the backing of Iran’s fiercely anti-American revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Their central demand: that the United States extradite the former Shah to stand trial in Iran —or they would execute their American hostages. This book is my story as one of the 52 Americans held captive for 444 days.

It was said of the Briton who founded Nigeria, “he possesses that quality, which is the first, the best – and I should not very greatly exaggerate if I even said, the only – essential to the successful government of native races, the power to make them act in their own way under their own leaders and of their own free will in the direction in which he wishes them to go”.‘Indirect rule’ is an ancient political concept dating back, before Christ, to the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar.

Mi nombre es Dani el Rojo. Fui atracador y politoxicómano. Cumplí tres condenas en la cárcel más peligrosa de Europa en los años 80: la Modelo de Barcelona. Estuve recluido en aquel infierno quince años de mi vida, durante los cuales me cosieron a palizas, me apuñalaron tres veces y contraje el sida.

सॅफ्रन स्वोर्ड्स’ ह्या मानोशी या योगदित्य सिन्हा लिखित इंग्रजी पुस्तकाचा, ‘महिला क्रांतिकारकांच्या कथा’ हा...

Warsaw, 1949: freedom fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski is being held in a maximum security prison, accused of being an enemy of the state by the Polish secret police. A survivor of the Warsaw Uprising, he is horrified to find himself locked up in a cell with the notorious Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the death of over 50,000 people: Jürgen Stroop. For 255 days Stroop talks to Moczarski of his life, entirely unrepentant of the crimes for which he would soon be executed himself.

यह पुस्तक नरेंद्र मोदी का जीवन चरित्र नहीं है, बल्कि उनके व्यक्तित्व और कृतित्व को रेखांकित करने का प्रयासभर है...

Robert Harris has brought Agrippa back to life in fiction. Now meet the real man. Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without. General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome's first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome's enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus's empire possible.

One man's extraordinary journey from slavery to freedom—in his own words. First published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and influential autobiographical works in American history. Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass recounts the...

Una obra imprescindible para entender al personaje y todo un momento de la historia de América Latina. Ernesto Guevara es una figura clave de la cultura y la historia que va más allá del mito: heraldo de la Revolución latinoamericana, hombre que vivió al límite, hoy es un símbolo de la...

Radioland is a “novelized memoir” —a combo meal of fiction, history, and semi-autobiography —told in the composite repackaging of the voices of those who lived it. A twizzlered, embellished musing on how early Top 40 radio both confused and changed the path of one little boy. Often funny, frequently sad, but mostly a rewarding experience —sort of like life.