Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Complete reprint of the unexpurgated edition of "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") written by Adolf Hitler (1925 and 1927). Volume I: A Reckoning and Volume II: The National Socialist Movement (Two Volumes in One). Translated by James Vincent Murphy (1880-1946). Author: Adolf HitlerISBN-10: 1682042839ISBN-13: 9781682042830Publisher:...

American Hero Stories is Eva March Tappan's fascinating overview of the important individuals in US history. Discover accounts of famous voyagers and explorers in the history of the United States within this 1921 historical account. American Hero Stories explores the origin stories of the...

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." Adolf Hitler The officially sanctioned English language edition of 'Mein Kampf' was translated and introduced by James Murphy. The edition using his translation was...

The Long Winter is one of the most memorable novels in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. It beautifully details the dramatic events of The Hard Winter of 1880-81, a harrowing time with months of never-ending blizzards leading to railroad blockades that all but...

Gholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived It is Donna Gholson Cook's fourth book. Donna is a sixth-Generation Texan and Great-Granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Gholson. Sam and Frank Gholson were born in the...

At the Cold Shoulder of History gives an in-depth look at what happened in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. One of the only living participants in President Kennedy's autopsy now comes forward after almost 54 years of silence and speaks about...

This is the true story of Joseph and Matilda Novak, as told in their own words, and newly updated by twin daughters Matilda and Karen. It's a story of growing up in Hungary during World War II, and surviving those hardships only to find...

One soldier's unfiltered account of World War II, told his way.You have read the history books. You have seen the documentaries and the Hollywood versions of war. But you have never experienced World War II like this: raw, personal, and told with the unflinching...

This book is not history the way they teach it in school. It's not about dates and treaties and names carved into marble. It's about what was felt. What was lost. What was carried. It's about the people who were broken and the ones...

Before the legend, there was a child.In postwar Spain, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was pushed into a life of hunger, hardship, and abandonment. In the wild mountains of Sierra Morena, he learned to survive far from ordinary human society-among caves, animals, and wolves that became...

Nazi Experiments in Brazil: History, Myths, and the Shadow of ExtremismLong before it became a sanctuary for post-war Nazi fugitives, Brazil was a canvas for ideological obsessions and racial pseudo-science. Nazi Experiments in Brazil delivers a gripping, meticulously researched investigation into the hidden chapters...

The true story and odyssey of a man who wanted to attain his freedom at all costs. It takes him through a perilous voyage at sea, during which he would rather face the possibility of death than remain enslaved by a totalitarian regime.In the...

In 1906, in the docklands of Hong Kong, seven-year-old Enid witnessed the murder of her father.That moment would shape the rest of her life. Orphaned by twelve and raised in the high noon of Empire, Enid grew up amid devastating loss, brittle pretence and...

Identity is not a terminal diagnosis.For over twenty years, Ryan Matthew operated at the razor's edge of human volatility. As a sociologist, State and Federal Task Force Investigator, and a member of the Minnesota Crisis Intervention Team, he was a specialist in the architecture...

Plymouth Plantation to Glory, Book One: Kindled in Smithfield - The Forging of the Covenant Flame tells the story of the spiritual and historical forces that shaped William Bradford and the Pilgrim Fathers long before Plymouth Colony was founded.Beginning with Henry VIII's break with...

What happens when faith is tested by fear and staying becomes the ultimate act of courage? American Martyr explores the extraordinary journey of an Oklahoma farm boy who became a missionary, a beloved shepherd to the Tz'utujil people of Guatemala, and ultimately a martyr....

Author: Charles DarwinISBN-10: 1573928348ISBN-13: 9781573928342Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.39h x 5.43w x 0.81dReview Citation(s): Scitech Book News 12/01/2001 pg. 66

An internationally acclaimed memoir of war, survival, and the invisible threads of generational trauma."We don't just inherit our ancestors' resilience. We inherit their wounds, their silence, and their unfinished stories."In 1904, sixteen-year-old Kosa left her isolated stone village in northern Dalmatia on a horse-drawn...

Selena's journey as a survivor, a real go getter! Selena a born trendsetter from Clarksdale Mississippi migrated to Chicago and became a household name as a professional entrepreneur, owning not one but multiple beauty and hair Weev salons beginning in the height of the...

In the shadows of World War II, where silence was often more powerful than gunfire, a group of extraordinary women changed the course of history."The Most Dangerous Female Spies of World War II" brings together the unforgettable true stories of the female agents who...

Wapakoneta, Ohio, has a unique history among Ohio cities. Wapakoneta's history can be traced from arrowheads to aerospace. Archeological evidence places native Americans hunters in the area as far back as 11,490 years, beginning as a Shawnee Indian village. Wapakoneta was originally established in...

Robert Peel did not lose power through scandal, corruption or incompetence. He lost it because he chose what he believed Britain required over what his own party demanded.Born into industrial wealth and educated for public office, Peel rose to become one of the most...

Discover the gripping true story of the final days of the Third Reich in The Last Days in the Führerbunker: The Death of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, and the Final Collapse of the Third Reich. This thoroughly researched historical nonfiction book explores the dramatic...

At 9:45 p.m. on January 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia was carrying more than 4,200 people past a small Tuscan island when her captain made a decision that would end in the worst cruise ship disaster in modern history.He wanted to give the island...

A dying king curses him to "long for death but be unable to die." Weeks later, he gets exactly that.In 138 AD, the most powerful man in the world lay in agony at a villa near Naples, trying and failing to end his own...

In 1988, a 32-year-old economist walked into the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade to ask for political asylum - on the one day it happened to be closed.That is exactly the kind of luck Mihai Baron had. And yet, somehow, he made it out.My Marshal...

This is a historical memoir following the Breadmaker's Daughters, who forged a rough-hewn life into a brass spirit of resilience. From tavern child to estate housekeeper, she turns domestic silence into quiet authority, uncovering the hidden machinery of class, control, and desire within a...

From the author of Into the Darkness - the acclaimed account of the Titanic disaster - comes the story of history's most haunting disappearance. In May 1845, 129 Royal Navy men sailed from England into the Canadian Arctic aboard HMS Erebus and HMS Terror....

A gripping and heartfelt memoir of childhood survival, this book tells the story of growing up in a Nigerian boarding school marked by fear, abuse, and silence. With honesty and courage, it explores the pain of being a child in an unsafe place while...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and influential autobiographies in American history. First published in 1845, this firsthand account traces Douglass's life from enslavement in Maryland to his escape to freedom and his emergence as one of...

Airstrips at Dawn is a memoir-inflected coming-of-age novel set in the remote airstrips and wide skies of New Zealand's Far North.In the early 1960s, after leaving university due to a depressive illness, a young man returns home and takes a job with an aerial...

One discovery. Hundreds of thousands of dreamers. A transformation that changed America forever.What if a few glittering flakes found in a California river could ignite one of the greatest migrations in history?The California Gold Rush takes you deep into the dramatic events that reshaped...

No GPS. No internet cafes in the desert. No safety nets. Just 20 countries, 254 days, and a completely different world.In the fragile global landscape of 2002, John Burkin set out from New York City with a backpack, a basic digital camera, and a...

The Keziah Connection is the story of a woman who followed a quiet, lifelong intuition back to the truth of her ancestry. Through her maternal line, she uncovered a direct connection to the Keziah family, Chief Nicholas Casiah, and the Tuscarora people of early...

Four Mongol envoys arrive in Cairo carrying a message meant to break a nation before a single sword is drawn.The Sultan's answer is to cut them in half and hang their heads from the city gate.There is no turning back now.Few people know that...

For centuries, the city of Pompeii lay hidden beneath layers of volcanic ash and stone, preserved in silence by one of history's most devastating natural disasters. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with catastrophic force, burying the thriving Roman city of Pompeii and transforming...

Henry Fox Talbot changed the way the world remembers itself.Before photography, faces, places, documents and moments survived through memory, drawing, painting, engraving or written description. Talbot helped create something far more powerful: a method by which light itself could leave evidence behind.Born into privilege...

Burke and Wills is the story of one of Australia's most famous expeditions, and one of its most avoidable disasters.In 1860, the Victorian Exploring Expedition left Melbourne with camels, supplies, public applause and the ambition to cross the Australian continent from south to north....

The French Revolution did not begin with the guillotine. It began with debt, hunger, privilege, failed reform, political fear, and a monarchy that could no longer command belief.In The French Revolution: Power, Terror, and the Fall of the Monarchy, Gordon J. MacKenzie places one...

Frankie Boy: A Memoir - Book FourIn Book Four, Frank De León continues the career he had dreamed of for years as an air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration. From the demanding FAA Academy to assignments in Houston and Guam, he embraces...

This book provides a detailed and engaging exploration of the life, discoveries, and lasting influence of Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists in history. Organized in a chronological and thematic format, it guides readers through the major events, achievements, and ideas that...

In Alaric: King of the Visigoths, Edward Harcourt tells the story of the Gothic ruler whose name became inseparable from the Sack of Rome in AD 410, one of the defining moments of the ancient world. Rising from the ranks of Rome's federate armies,...

In Peter the Great: The Tsar Who Remade Russia, Edward Harcourt brings to life the ruler who transformed Russia from a traditional Muscovite kingdom into a rising European empire. Ascending the throne amid political turmoil, Peter launched sweeping reforms that reshaped the military, government,...

Branches of the Family Tree: The Durbin, Fugate, and Cooper Families and Their DescendantsStep into the rich history of the Durbin, Fugate, and Cooper families and discover the lives, stories, and legacies that helped shape generations. Through extensive genealogical research, historical records, family documents,...

'Nobody knows how much I owe that man, ' Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life in Auschwitz. For six months, Lorenzo Perrone risked his own life to smuggle food, letters and clothing to prisoners. Without Perrone, Levi would not have...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of John Law of Lauriston pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. A gripping historical biography, "John Law of Lauriston" by A. W. Wiston-Glynn, explores the life and times of...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Pride and Passion pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, 1759-1796" offers a compelling biography of Scotland's beloved national poet. DeLancey Ferguson's meticulously researched...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Prison Life in the Old Capitol pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War" offers a compelling glimpse...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life" offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of the British aristocracy during...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. Explore the tumultuous life and times of "Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy" in this meticulously prepared historical...