Biography & Autobiography - Historical

"Oh my God" I saw a body with no head. I saw the head in another place and I almsot stepped on another body. It was a lady. Her neck was full of shrapnel and blood was gushing from it.Author: Carol KoppensteinISBN-10: 0595488595ISBN-13: 9780595488599Publisher:...

In 1939, author Simon Eichel was fifteen years old and lived in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. He was old enough to know that 'politics" were taking an ugly turn and that life would undoubtedly become more uncomfortable for Jews. All the same,...

In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there...

"Scholars now have Warnicke to use as their chief one volume study of Mary" Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh In this biography of one of the most intriguing figures of early modern European history, Retha Warnicke, widely regarded as a leading historian on Tudor...

A remarkable annotated collection of previously unpublished private correspondence from the creator of Sherlock Holmes This extraordinary annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. Detailing Conan Doyle's life from his beginnings...

*Includes pictures *Includes Rockefeller's own quotes about his life and career *Includes a bibliography for further reading "I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all...

This remarkable book is nothing less than an alphabetical listing of nearly the entire adult male (and some of the female) population of Monmouth County during the American Revolution--some 6,000 Monmouth Countians between 1776 and 1783. For roughly half of the persons listed, we...

Lawrence Bodner, is the author of Gemacht, a biography about the fascinating life of his father, Jacques Bodner. Jacques Bodner survived the Holocaust, and his escape from Austria is nothing short of astounding. Gemacht covers almost nine decades of an unusual life that encompassed...

In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians--arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939--were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The...

The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. CorcoranBefore the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex...

The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one...

S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief...

TO THE HORIZON AND BEYOND follows a trajectory of humanity's misery and struggle in the 20th century. Hansrudi Brawand worked for the Red Cross in disaster and conflict zones across the world for over thirty years. It all comes to life here; the tragedies,...

As increased attention is now being given to US-China and Pacific Rim relations, Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator stitches together real-life practices, skills, and experiences to pull back the domestic and foreign cultural trade curtain.Memoirs of a Trade Facilitator reflects the author's belief that...

I'm not an expert in any field by any stretch. I'm just an ordinary person doing ordinary things like nursing and missionary work. Trying to help others has always been my goal, but I felt for years that something was missing. Picture this, a...

Intriguing letters by one of colonial America's most accomplished womenOne of the most distinguished women of colonial America, Eliza Lucas Pinckney pioneered large-scale cultivation of indigo in South Carolina, managed her father's extensive plantation holdings, and raised two sons--Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney--who...

Author: Chris EnssISBN-10: 1560375256ISBN-13: 9781560375258Publisher: Farcountry PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2012Pages: 121Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel...

Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a great British historian. He led an extraordinary life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy. This memoir attempts to lift that cloak. / This is a very personal account written by Neil...

Here is the story, in his own words, of how Cesare Mori, with the support of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, took on the might of the Sicilian Mafia. It was a struggle that earned Mori much criticism of his methods from the liberal...

"Henry VIII" focuses on the fluctuating, often fraught relationship between the king and his court, his Church and his people - and with the other powers of continental Europe. It shows how Henry manipulated key players such as Wolsey, Cromwell, Fisher and More, and...

Known as the 'Patron Saint of Club Golfers' throughout the world, Dr Frank Barney Gorton Stableford is recognised as one of the most prominent figures in the history of golf. Like the good doctor he was, Stableford introduced and developed a scoring system which...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography"We have met the enemy and they are ours." - Oliver Hazard PerrySandwiched between the Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 is one of America's forgotten conflicts, and the stalemated nature of the war (which resolved virtually none...

Stephen Henry Michell always struggled to deal with the need to tell his painful story of loss and outrage; outrage toward the Nazi monsters who tortured and killed without mercy; and outrage toward the commanders that he and his compatriots believed, sent so many...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Didn't Admiral Dewey do wonderfully well? I got him the position out there in Asia last year, and I had to beg hard to do it; and the reason I gave was that we might have to send...

Now re-formatted and typeset for clarity. Nominated as one of the "All-time Top 100 Non-Fiction Books" by the UK Guardian newspaper in 2011. Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' caused uproar when the book was published in 1918. Instead of being laudatory...

Author: Samuel Selden PartridgeISBN-10: 1441556761ISBN-13: 9781441556769Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2009Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

When It Was Dark: The Story Of A Great Conspiracy is a novel written by Guy Thorne and published in 1904. The story revolves around a man named Lord Southend who is on trial for murder. As the trial progresses, evidence emerges that suggests...

"Into The Dragon's Jaws" details the exciting adventures and experiences of a young Canadian Red Cross combat casualty surgeon who volunteered to assist Vietnamese-war wounded following the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam in 1968. The intensity and drama of this book are enhanced by...

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her...

Newport, Rhode Island, holds the untold slices of Jackie Kennedy's life. It became her home in 1942, and nothing enchanted her more than watching the sea from the porch of Hammersmith Farm. The city by the sea was her peaceful oasis, where she found...

My life as a Japanese 'boy sailor' in the Pacific War. Due to Japan's war time General Mobilization Law, many boys of about 14 years of age who had graduated from the national higher elementary school system (for 13-14 years olds) were drafted into...

Napoleon's lightning conquest of Prussia, accomplished within a month in the autumn of 1806, was perhaps his most spectacularly successful campaign. The twin battles of Jena and Auerstadt, won on the same day, October 14th, by Napoleon himself and his most able Marshal, Davout,...

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later,...

William Wykeham was an extraordinary figure whose rapid ascent from peasant to chancellor bucked contemporary trends. Wykeham's administrative talents ensured that he became bishop of Winchester, holder of one of the richest sees in Christendom and Chancellor of England under Edward III and Richard...

Some 60 years after the Nuremberg trials, interest in the leading figures of the Third Reich continues unabated. Here, Ulf Schmidt recounts the meteoric rise of one of Hitler's most trusted advisers, Karl Brandt. As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became...

Did an Irish monk discover America? Which rebel died of having a feckin' tooth pulled? And who in the name of Jaysus was responsible for the Pledge? If you've ever wondered how much of our rabble-rousing history is true, and how much a load...

Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa.(A Convert to Christianity, ) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government, Laws, Appearance of...

James Capen Adams, a mountain man born in 1807, lived in the mountains with the grizzlies he tamed and trained. After his return to the city, with the grizzlies in tow for exhibition, he lived amongst his animals and slept on a buffalo robe....

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after political arrests. Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered...

A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination. Ambedkar was...

Author: Bonnie S. SpeerISBN-10: 1889683140ISBN-13: 9781889683140Publisher: Reliance PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1999Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world.In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying,...

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century--by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome...

Holocaust history revealed in family letters. The memos of a Denver couple show ties to Einstein, Nuremberg. - Denver Post, 2009. Ghosts in My Mother's Closet is the story of a Jewish immigrant, Edwin Sieradz (later changed to Sears), and his Gentile wife Vera...

The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and his...

The chapter headings in Born to Be Hung hint at the "range" Dude Lavington has covered: "Runaways-High Water Crossings" "Moose-Hunting Yarns""Range Riding on the Batnuni""The Lady Said Yes""Bluffing Wolves" ...This is the author's second book on wrangling and ranching in the Baker Creek Valley...

Ion "Jack" Idriess (1889 - 1979) is recognised as one of Australia's great storytellers, having published over 50 books including the Outback tales of Lasseter's Last Ride, Flynn of the Inland, and The Cattle King alongside major histories of Broken Hill, Broome and Cooktown.This...

"Probably there can nowhere be found, within the same limits, so vivid a picture of Life in America, one hundred years ago, as the career of Franklin presents." --John S.C. Abbott, Preface, 1876American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote Benjamin Franklin--A Picture of the Struggles...

An exuberant autobiography that began with a fist fight at a get acquainted dance, then on to an adventurous path, cluttered with pot holes and uncertainty that took me beyond what I could ever imagine. Ultimately, it's about how you will be remembered: is...