Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton's younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly incubating spirituality...

A gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women. Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era...

The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations....

A true story, Charlie is both historical and creative non-fiction; creative for the addition of dialogue that, in most cases. is speculative. The story follows Charlie Allison's life from youth to death, from farming to mining, to bootlegging, to Chicago where he became acquainted...

"A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne's triumph and tragedy." --Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review"A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of...

This printing of Men and Rubber: The Story of Business by Harvey S. Firestone is part of the Farnam Street Timeless Classics Series, where we continue with our goal of 'mastering the best of what other people have figured out.' This is one of...

Jack Klajman is only nine years old when the ghetto walls go up in Warsaw. The Smallest Hope is his powerful memoir recounting how he survived by smuggling food from outside the ghetto, and by hiding in a war-torn city among Nazi soldiers. Witness...

The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has...

From Indiana farm boy to Vietnam fighter pilot and beyond, Fredrick L. Pumroy often seemed to "live on the edge." Stories about his narrow escapes from enemy anti-aircraft fire over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and dances with death in all manner of aircraft...

Do you enjoy reading moving stories packed with adventure, romance, and intrigue? More importantly, do you enjoy reading things that make the Bible more understandable and relatable to help you to grow spiritually? What if you could get all of that from one book?...

Author: Joseph R. McCarthyISBN-10: 1258430398ISBN-13: 9781258430399Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2012Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d

Where there's a Gill, there's a way.Gordon Gill is a gentle, hard-working M騁is man whose journey began on his Iroquois-Cree grandfather's trapline and evolved into a successful business career. His story is one of change and the passing of not just one, but several...

A compelling new memoir by one of the youngest-known survivors of Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries. Sullivan has been interviews extensively in the national media about her harrowing experiences. She discussed her ongoing fight for justice in RTﾉ 's 2022 documentary Ireland's Dirty Laundry.Author: Maureen...

Gabriele D'Annunzio was one of the most flamboyant, brilliant and altogether incalculable personalities of the 19th and 20th centuries. His talents were enough to make the most accomplished Renaissance man flinch: he was a poet, lover, soldier and patriot. He was a well-known poet...

Kyle Taylor stars in this gripping drama, winner of four film awards. Frederick Douglass: No Turning Back takes you to 1872, Ohio. Former slave, Mr. Douglass, one of our great American heroes, is to speak. He's introduced by the Pastor sharing Frederick's vast triumphs,...

Heinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such a historically...

""A Life Of The Reverend Richard Baxter 1615-1691"" is a biographical book written by Frederick J. Powicke. The book is about the life of Richard Baxter, a prominent English Puritan church leader and theologian who lived during the 17th century. The book provides a...

Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova (1884 - 1964) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and close friend of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress of Russia and wife of the last ruler of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II. Within this fascinating volume, she recounts her unique experiences of life at...

Revised new paperback edition of the classic biography of Belfast abolitionist and social reformer, Mary Ann McCracken. Reissued to mark 250th anniversary of her birth. Long overshadowed by her United Irishman brother, Henry Joy, but her story is more relevant than ever.Author: Mary McNeillISBN-10:...

The #1 New York Times bestselling, controversial portrait of the British royal family -- as told from behind the palace walls -- for fans of Netflix's The Crown and all royal watchers They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe....

A View through the Fog is compelling, poignant, and packed with both moving and hilarious anecdotes. All human life (and death) is here. With his own distinct voice, McGee opens the door on the dizzying world of the Golden Gate Bridge-the beauty of both...

In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military...

A lifetime of questions led us to discover that the grandfather we never knew had led a surprisingly interesting and varied life, having occupied himself as a farmer and a Populist, a town builder and a merchant, a Freethinker and a pioneer of the...

This is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal...

Tracing one family's settler generations to the American West, an epic narrative spans decades and continents. From the establishment of Kirtland, Ohio, to the mass wagon and handcart migration over the Mormon Trail, to the formidable challenges of settling the Utah Territory, Alan and...

For many surviving military veterans, the Vietnam War is an indelible part of their lives. That they survived is due in many cases to the heroic, life-saving actions of combat medics like Bill "Doc" Strusinski. Being a frontline medic was, and still is, one...

The fascinating life of Ninian Beall, a military Scotsman who went on to become one of Maryland's most revered individuals, is detailed in this biography.Ninian Beall's importance in the history of Maryland is notable. After an early life spent as a cornet player in...

A groundbreaking new edition of Incidents that puts into context Harriet Jacobs' achievements as a literary artist and social activist. Author: Harriet JacobsISBN-10: 1554815029ISBN-13: 9781554815029Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2023Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.1Point Value: 14Interest Level:...

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been...

As the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish...

"I'm Sergeant First Class, J. D. Lankford. U.S. Army, Retired. 87 years old, an EX Prisoner of War, WW II. I am the author of the book,"WALK WITH ME." It is about me growing up during the great depression "1930"s serving in President Franklin...

The personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from...

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of...

A special 80th anniversary edition of this much-acclaimed title, to commemorate the extraordinary events of 1943 A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich...

Mozart in Prague tells the story of Prague's progressive and early embrace of one of the world's greatest composers-and of his reciprocation. Often dismissed in Vienna as a composer of excessively complicated music with little popular appeal, Mozart found complete recognition for his talents...

This book is a collection of recorded memories of my own and stories told to me by others and is not intended as a historical document. It is preserved in an effort to share my life, good times and bad, with those who may...

This book is a must read for those who want to delve deep into the psyche, the secrets, and the struggles of black women. It speaks to the daily battles she has to endure in order to survive. Her stories are numerous and filled...

"An enthralling and insightful cultural history--one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair." --Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book Review An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life...

First published in 1963, Pethick-Lawrence is a detailed biography of the life and career of Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence. Written by Vera Brittain, a close friend of Pethick-Lawrence during the last twenty-five years of his life, the book is a thorough and affectionate record of...

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...

Steadfast Ink - The Journey Within A daughter's quest to uncover her father's truths, and share them with the world. Experience one woman's incredible story about what she uncovered in a treasure trove of WWII letters, hidden away by her Czech father. As the...

Denis Julien's first biographer in 1933 called him the "Mysterious D. Julien" because so little was known about him. He was surmised to have been a fur trapper along the Green and Colorado Rivers in the 1830s and not much more than that was...

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, Experience.Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread...

Have you ever felt you are living a life of lies? How did you become this way? Are you living in fear or hoping no one can see through your lies and find out how a woman with difficult circumstances coped and lived through...

In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a...

"Now listen to what an old man tells you. My best book is my Recollections of Joan of Arc. ...it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others...

This rich and compelling volume describes the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the Prusso-German throne in 1888, a story so extraordinary that it will fascinate anyone interested in the psychology and the throng of personalities...

Jeffrey Frank, author of the bestselling Ike and Dick, returns with the first full account of the Truman presidency in nearly thirty years, recounting how so ordinary a man met the extraordinary challenge of leading America through the pivotal years of the mid-20th century....

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory,...

Sam Houston is a Texas icon. General Houston signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on his 43rd birthday, and six weeks later he led the Texas Army to a spectacular victory at San Jacinto. "Old Sam Jacinto" twice was elected president of the Republic...