Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices and struggling...

This first volume in 1933, of four, of "Intimate Memories" details incidents that impressed Mabel Dodge Luhan up until she was eighteen. Here she stresses her struggle during childhood and girlhood to become an individual. She says, "So the houses I have lived in...

Author: Melissa Muller, Reinhard PiechockiISBN-10: 1509853863ISBN-13: 9781509853861Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2017Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d

To borrow imagery from C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Timothy George's perspective as a historical theologian is the wardrobe that we can walk through to get to Narnia, an exciting new place where we discover the wonderful works of...

""America's Retreat From Victory: The Story Of George Catlett Marshall"" is a book written by Joseph R. McCarthy that tells the story of George Catlett Marshall, one of the most influential military leaders in American history. The book explores Marshall's life and career, from...

Letters to His Children has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...

The first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union...

Two volunteers from Texas - taken across the globe and challenged more than either man ever dreamed.While World War II threatened the stability of nations worldwide, a bond of brotherhood was formed from unthinkable challenges: One having their rights temporarily stripped in the name...

Stefan grows up in Warsaw, Poland, barely aware he is Jewish and part of a small, assimilated community steeped in Polish culture. But in 1939, Nazi Germany occupies Poland, and Stefan suffers the same fate as the rest of the Jewish community when he...

This book describes why ancient Ethiopia is a target of hybrid and proxy wars and a multitude of direct and indirect interventions andpunitive sanctions inflicted on one of the most ancient and promising countries in Africa. Ethiopia is the "Motherland and Pride of Africa"...

The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece "And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go...

In Separate Pasts Melton A. McLaurin honestly and plainly recalls his boyhood during the 1950s, an era when segregation existed unchallenged in the rural South. In his small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows, yet...

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just"...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. A biography "as enthralling as a detective story," of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland (New York Times Book Review).In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait...

Picking up where Rhode Island's Founders left off Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the Ocean State's history from 1790 to 1860. Learn how Samuel Slater, the Father of...

This celebrated biography of Christopher Columbus takes us from his obscure youth to his discovery of the Americas, and through the four voyages he made to the New World.Columbus was born in Genoa, and gained maritime experience by sailing in Europe and along the...

Winston Churchill was only 20 when he met the man whom he credited, more than any other, with shaping him as a statesman and an orator. As Churchill wrote: "I regard his as the biggest and most original mind I have ever met. When...

Kent to Kefalonia is the second volume of LucyAnn Curling's series Curling Wisps & Whispers of History. In Volume 1, Thanet to Tasmania, fortune did not smile on the Curling family in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). At the beginning of Volume 2 they are...

The first comprehensive biography of one of Irish history's most monumental figures in almost four decades. Publishing in advance of the centenary of his death, aged just 30, in April 1923. Written by celebrated Irish historian with a strong online reach.Author: Gerard ShannonISBN-10: 1788558219ISBN-13:...

In the late sixties and early seventies, a whole wacky world existed that most of us have never heard of: the workers who kept the summer beaches and parks of Connecticut beautiful. Rich Valentini was at the bottom of that food chain: a campground...

a verse memoir about the author's parents' experiences in a Nazi slave labor camp in GermanyAuthor: John GuzlowskiISBN-10: 0974326453ISBN-13: 9780974326450Publisher: Steel Toe BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2007Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants--with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman--who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from...

They fell in love through their letters. Between 1941 and 1945, Bernard wrote a total of 246 handwritten letters to Selma. Writing daily to his childhood friend Selma from army college in Oklahoma, boot camps in Georgia and Texas, and the WWII front lines...

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other wicked women by award-winning Western history author Chris Enss offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling...

Jonathan Mitchel Sewall was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and educated at Boston Public Latin School. When he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a young lawyer at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he wrote the words to a song that was sung in...

First published in the 4th century A.D., Anthony the Great's biography was authored by Christian Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Since its original release, the book has helped spread the beliefs, practices and arduous faith of Anthony the Great to a wider audience. A significant...

Gond Rani Veerangana Durgawati, queen of the tribal kingdom of Garha Mandla, ruled more than 450 years ago and died fighting for her dharma. A survivor who was not afraid to stand up for her rights, she was a warrior smart enough to use...

Against the background of a seemingly tranquil 1950s and the more volatile 1960s, Dana Alioto effortlessly captures the rhythm and pace of growing up in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With a middle-class background, a Catholic grade school and public high school grad, and an alum...

On Challenging Journeys We Find Out Who We AreApartheid is a powerful memoir of Una's Personal and political struggles growing up in the peaceful community of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa.By age nine, the political arena in South Africa changed; Una and her family are...

When two suitcases were found after Angela's parents had died, they were found to be full of hundreds of love letters between the two, documenting their courtship years after the Second World War. Some refer to the story of their war years together as...

Charles Marsh responds to criticisms of his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by exploring the largely unexamined relationship between theology and biography. In Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand, he argues that Bonhoeffer scholarship desperately needs the revitalizing energies of the theologian's life...

A meeting between C.G. Jung and Rabbi Leo Baeck took place in Zurich in October 1946 at the Savoy Hotel Baur en Ville. Very little is actually known about this meeting. There are no extant notes or reports from the principals indicating what was...

Johann Michael Wansleben's Travels in Turkey, 1673-1676 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa by the German scholar traveller Wansleben. Wansleben was in the Ottoman Empire to buy manuscripts, statuary, and curios for the French king, but...

The Book of Later Han (Houhanshu) by Fan Ye (398-445) is enormously important as China's most complete work on Eastern Han history in biographical form. For the first time in any Western language, the author introduces Fan Ye's magnificent writings in lively translation with...

Bushranging Tales depicts real cases of Australian bushranging through a series of short stories, biographies, original illustrations and archival material.Discover thrilling and horrifying true stories of robbery, prison escape and murder, featuring events from the lives of Michael Howe, Matthew Brady, Martin Cash, Daniel...

Of all the prominent musicians born in Bohemia in the eighteenth century, none is surrounded with as much mystery and mystique as Josef Myslivec麑 (1737-1781), who was known in Italy as "Il Boemo" (The Bohemian). Scion of a wealthy family of millers from Prague,...

This is a story about family, my family. Beginning in the distant past with great grandparents and tracing their descendants to the present great grandchildren, I've documented my family history including my brother, myself, and our wives. It's a thorough genealogical family tree featuring...

Growing Up Mad in the South is set in Atlanta, GA, during the 1950s and '60s, when racism, sexism, and personal salvation were lurking behind "Well bless your heart." Diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17, the Mad narrator struggles with both her aberrant senses...

This is a reprinting of William Still's The Underground Rail Road, in the 1878 Revised Edition. It includes a new foreword by Samuel C. Still III and an afterword by Evelyn Hunt. The facsimile text has been carefully prepared.Author: William StillISBN-10: 1947889168ISBN-13: 9781947889163Publisher: South...

What would you do if your husband was taken? Numb is a gripping and emotional tale of Azita's journey during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. As she fights to escape the grasp of the new Islamic Republic fundamentalists, Azita loses loved ones to the...

A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem...

Notable Women of Modern China, 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 completely retyped,...

In A Conning Tower Or How I Took H.M.S. Majestic Into Action: A Story Of Modern Ironclad Warfare is a book written by Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster and published in 1891. The book is a first-person account of Arnold-Forster's experiences as a naval officer during...

Puritans, Plagues, and Promises transports you back four centuries into some of England's most tumultuous times. From the beginning pages, a web of intrigue engulfs the first two characters: the Cole family patriarch and his Puritan vicar. A participant in secret nonconformist meetings, the...

The three Conley boys, Jack, Jim and Frank were sons of an Irish immigrant family, raised along the banks of the Susquehanna River in Maryland. After the death of their father when Frank was but 18 months old, the family relocated to Carroll, Iowa.During...

'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, medical...

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,...

For years people had been telling Sam Payne to write a book about his adventures. My Life in Aviation, Taking Chances and Having Lots of Luck is his response. In "Taking Chances," he talks about starting to fly, going to Argentina, quitting helicopters and...

Dwight David Eisenhower proudly claimed that he "came from the very heart of America." Yet it could be argued that, despite those provincial beginnings, no other American exerted more influence on world history during the twentieth century. From his humble birth in Abilene, Kansas,...

Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in...