When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Night Train to Odesa begins in Russia and continues to focus on people in Ukraine. It is the account of a young female reporter with no backup or security.

Ray Lane recounts his extraordinary career defusing bombs and serving in war zones from Ireland to Afghanistan, sharing the courage it takes to confront unimaginable danger head-on.Ray Lane’s career...

Tells the story of Mary Richards, a Union spy who posed as an illiterate slave during the American Civil War.During the American Civil War, an educated Black woman posed as an illiterate slave in the...

Unique approach to describing and documenting the career and public service of the immensely popular Sir Winston Churchill.

Explores the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte's intimate relationship with books and history, going far beyond his more militaristic and imperial fame.Napoleon Bonaparte held absolute political power in...

One hundred years ago this year, the largest Irish WWI ex-servicemen housing estate on the island of Ireland was completed, the Killester Garden Village. Comprising 247 bungalows, it was the flagship...

Less than two years after a naive, beguiling nurse from Minnesota decides to join the war effort behind her father’s back, she finds herself holed up treating the critically wounded from the Battle of the Bulge. In December 1944, she blatantly defies army rules in order to save the lives of her patients.

"The peace had been desecrated. I knew because people spoke in low tones and laughter dried up. Outside, things unfolded without grace or color, even the harmattan leaves were more skeletal than usual....