Biography & Autobiography - Historical

""A Memoir, Rufus R. Dawes: Born July 4, 1838, Died August 1, 1899"" is a book written by William E. Roe in 1900. The book is a biography of Rufus R. Dawes, a prominent American Civil War officer who fought for the Union Army....

The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a...

Immerse yourself in the enigmatic allure of the Egyptian sands as they echo a singular tale of audacious ambition and extraordinary power. "Pharaoh Hatshepsut: The Chronicle of the First Female Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt" brings forth the unparalleled narrative of a woman who dared...

Dwellers In The Vale Of Siddem: A True Story Of The Social Aspect Of Feeble-Mindedness is a book written by Arthur C. Rogers in 1919. The book provides a detailed account of the social aspects of feeble-mindedness and its impact on the lives of...

This vivid and powerful account documents the experiences of American revolutionary Ethan Allen during his captivity by the British. Allen was a key figure in the fight for American independence, and his story sheds new light on the struggles and sacrifices of those who...

The History of John Barr is a captivating and personal account of Barr's life, including his time as a soldier during the American Revolution and his struggles with faith and alcoholism. The book also contains a series of short letters by John McCorkle to...

Follow along as Charles Burdett chronicles the fascinating life of Kit Carson, one of the most legendary figures of the American West. From his time as a trapper and trader to his service as a guide for the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War,...

This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka's legacy--to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024--explores Kafka's life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all...

This fascinating book tells the life story of Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States during the Continental Congress. It also explores the rich history of the Hilligoss family, from its origins in Germany to its role in the founding of America....

A successful career woman, at a juncture in her life, has finally attained the beautiful lifestyle, the security, all she had ever dreamt of during her trauma laden upbringing-only to realize she may have lost the only thing of worth. Fear, drama, trust, grief-and...

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 14 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer,...

La odisea de Heinz Salinger en los campos de concentración de la Alemania nazi Casi un siglo después de los acontecimientos, el autor recupera la historia de su abuelo en los centros de exterminio, una experiencia tan traumática de la que nunca quiso hablar...

This book analyzes what might happen to Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan. It presents all the facts we know on the World Flight and her final flight, and compares them to the theories proposed. It compares facts to define a reasonable scenario of what...

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant capture the essence of the 18th U.S. President's life, particularly his pivotal roles during the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. Crafted in the final days of Grant's life amidst battles with terminal throat cancer and severe financial distress, these...

Late one night in July, 1963, a South African police unit surrounded the African National Congress headquarters in Rivonia and arrested a group of Movement leaders gathered inside. Eventually eight of them, including Nelson Mandela, who was already serving a sentence, Walter Sisulu, Dennis...

The war and views of a foot soldier in gray The author of this book has written of his experiences of the American Civil War from the perspective of an ordinary private soldier of the North Carolina Infantry. Modern readers should allow for the...

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still...

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was the entertainment industry's first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of "the western world's greatest traveling attraction," enthralling audiences around the globe. When...

This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a vital and progressive...

Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city...

World War II; a Jewish child secretly hidden by a courageous French nun during the German Occupation. This gentle memoir speaks to the trauma of war in all its haunting twists and its poignant impact long after war's end.Author: Josie Levy MartinISBN-10: 0759657084ISBN-13: 9780759657083Publisher:...

What would happen if you ventured to a new country halfway around the world where you could not speak the language? This was the situation faced by your ancestors as they began the quest for a new and better life. It was to be...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly...

Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished personalities from a...

A gripping and emotive narrative nonfiction manuscript that details the childhood of a part-Jewish boy who struggles with a lack of familial comforts, maltreatment, exploitation, bereavement, and probable neurodivergence while living through and in the aftermath of World War II. Little Frits finds his...

Author: John TannerISBN-10: 0142437514ISBN-13: 9780142437513Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2003Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.82h x 5.04w x 0.55d

A gripping and emotive narrative nonfiction manuscript that details the childhood of a part-Jewish boy who struggles with a lack of familial comforts, maltreatment, exploitation, bereavement, and probable neurodivergence while living through and in the aftermath of World War II. Little Frits finds his...

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a...

Tim came to Canada from England in 1957 at the age of 17. He worked in Toronto and Sudbury until 1960 when he joined the RCAF as an Aircrew Radio Operator. He was trained in Winnipeg, where he met and married Marty, who was...

THE story that is recorded here is written only at the repeated and urgent solicitation of those of my friends who have known me best, and have insisted that the telling of it would serve a useful purpose, especially at this time, in helping...

This is a narrative autobiography about Liming Jing s struggle to discover her independence and to fulfill her dreams in the hostile and unforgiving regime of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and Ten Years of Madness. The book is illustrated throughout with historic black...

An engrossing, unadulterated biography of "Bloody Mary"--elder daughter of Henry VIII, Catholic zealot, and England's first reigning Queen Mary Tudor was the first woman to inherit the throne of England. Reigning through one of Britain's stormiest eras, she earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for...

"Airship of Dreams" is a true story that can be read by itself, although it is also Book #1 of the VALIANT HEART trilogy. It describes William Palstra's extraordinary life, which ended in 1930 when His Majesty's airship R101 exploded in flames, changing the...

"I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of wandering might grow longer . . . but it...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A box of letters. A timeless love story. Two people separated by war build an unbreakable bond.When Anthea C. Stratigos discovered an ornate chinoiserie box owned by her late mother-in-law, Irene, she didn't realize she had stumbled upon an epic love story. Inside were...

This book describes the author's many unusual and exciting experiences over forty years as a military and civil pilot. In the 1960s, after a tour in fighter/ground attack Hunters in the Far East, he was sent on loan to the Sultan of Oman's Air...

Eventful and colourful history of the Arundell family, landed gentry based at Wardour Castle, south-west Wiltshire (UK), from the 16th to 20th century, engagingly written for the general reader but fully referenced for the scholar.Author: Barry WilliamsonISBN-10: 1906978123ISBN-13: 9781906978129Publisher: Hobnob PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2011Pages: 252Format:...

He saved the wounded survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by piloting the steamer Far West on a record-breaking dash down three rivers to Fort Abraham Lincoln. This acclaimed biography of Grant Marsh is one of the quintessential works of western Americana...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

This well-researched book is a biography of the life--and disappearance--of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely different?Author:...

Author Gary Brown brings to life a thorough and insightful analysis of this controversial and sometimes misunderstood historical figure, whom most remember as the commander who lost twice as many men as were killed at the Alamo and San Jacinto combined. Now the story...

In Civil War Columbia, South Carolina, no women were more gossiped about than Amelia Feaster and her teenage daughter, Marie Boozer. The Philadelphia-born Feaster, a widow three times before her thirty-first birthday, aided the Union war effort from her home, while Marie became infamous...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.Author: B. W. ChidlawISBN-10: 1498058132ISBN-13: 9781498058131Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.79d

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts from the journals of two of the Mayflower's passengers "By God's providence, upon the ninth of November following, by break of the day we espied land which was deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. And the...

It was a dark time, but a light shone the way. It was a time of sadness, but also a time of joy. Green Grove was a place not only in terms of geography, but also in terms of a community with a mindset...

For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four...

Author: Joseph Howard TysonISBN-10: 1450240194ISBN-13: 9781450240192Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2010Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

CAROLINE SEVERANCE present s the biography of one of the forgot ten heroines of the American woman's suffrage movement of the nineteenth century. Based upon twenty years of exhaustive research, this is the biography of a woman who was in the forefront of every...