Biography of George Bernard Shaw and filmmaker Gabriel Pascal and their work together.

What would you sacrifice to make your dreams a reality? Devil and Disciple is a tale of obsessive lust and spine chilling passion that provokes, inflames and most definitely inspires. Female body builder, Amanda Hearst, was a muscle fibre away from attaining greatness when Russian oligarch, Alexander Sokolenko, presents her with a Faustian proposal that demands much soul searching and much sacrifice, maybe more sacrifice than Amanda is willing to give. As Amanda delves the deepest darkest depths of obsession she realizes that some obsessions are far more dangerous than others. What happens when she realizes that "Manuscripts don't burn?"

"One of the most shattering and upsetting stories I have read for a long time. I certainly finished it feeling as if I had watched and earthquake. The final irony is that Pascal's last mad idea was a musical based on PYGMALION. He broke himself--and several others--keeping up the option payments on it. One day Pascal looked at his wife's hand and said with amazement, 'I am going to leave you with millions, ' Nothing seemed less likely. He died penniless and deep in debt. "But the book ends with the first night of MY FAIR LADY." --Colin Wilson

T.H. Huxley led a fascinating and outgoing life. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. He carried Darwin's fight to the public. This book uses the life of Huxley to illustrate the second half of the 19th century.

This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando. SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence on special operations doctrine was far-reaching and long-lasting – in 2011, when US Navy SEALs infiltrated Pakistan to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, the operational planning was influenced by Skorzeny's legacy. Yet he was also an egoist who stole other men's credit (including for the seminal rescue of Mussolini), brave and resourceful but also an unrepentant Nazi and a self-aggrandizing hogger of the limelight. Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his background as a student radical in Vienna, to his bloody service with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, his surprise rebirth as a commando, and his intriguing post-war career and mysterious fortune, this book tells Otto Skorzeny's story in full – warts and all – for the first time.