Biography & Autobiography - Historical

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Everyone has a Family Story to tell. - "But How Do I Start?"This is one of the biggest hurdles in writing a Memoir or a Family Story. Not knowing How or Where to start can stop you in your tracks. With a little guidance,...

After emigrating from Germany to Michigan at age seven, Johannes Strieter (1829-1920) served as a confessional Lutheran pastor in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana amid almost unbelievable hardships. Though not a well-known person himself, his life's path intersected with that of numerous distinguished persons--August...

How do you find the courage to go on when everything you knew is gone? That is a question faced by Philipp Weingartner several times in his life. Born into a family of insignificant farm labourers in a town, region, and country erased from...

With the Balkans being a small tourist destination, not many know of the horrors that plagued the people living there. The traumas of the Bosnian War (1991-1995) can be seen surfacing through the war letters written by brother and sister, Denis and Amela, who...

My Story, My Voice was written by Femma Mahdessian Slap, a Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivor who died in 2020. English was her second language. The short stories contained in this book came from her heart. She didn't want them published, initially. She didn't really...

"Reflections on Sage Lake" is a memoir of a half century of summers spent at a cottage in northern Michigan originally purchased by the author's in-laws. Having always dreamed of someday owning a cottage, she and her husband and their young family spend as...

An intimate portrait of privilege and struggle, scandal and accolade, from the Old World to the new colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. At the age of 33, Sarah Crease left her home in England to travel with her young family to a...

Author: Jane HagedornISBN-10: 1401022669ISBN-13: 9781401022662Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.54w x 1.01d

Without any doubts, the biography of Prophet Muhammad (Peace & Blessings be Upon Him) is authentic, truthful and complete. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was an exemplary man of intelligent mind and faultless vision. He was called "the truthful & the trustworthy" long...

The city that floundered for a century became the incubation chamber for many rocking chair stories of hilarity, insight, warmth, and triumph. The author lived the life-changing moments with the fervor of anticipation within the cozy beginnings of this large Charleston family's journey. This...

Yes, I want to thank Pakistan for being so brutal with us since its birth in 1947 until the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. If Pakistan (then West Pakistan) hadn't been so brutal and unfair, the history of our country Bangladesh (then East Pakistan)...

In this one-hour history book, discover why 1943 was such a pivotal year as we uncover the main events of that year during World War II, the most lethal war of all times. If 1942 was a crossroads, then 1943 was the point of...

The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn "This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have...

This biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914-1918). Central to Garvey's response was the development of organizations...

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Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485-1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens of England. The Turbulent Crown...

Marie Corelli was a famous, fearless, outspoken woman.A successful nineteenth-century novelist, she outsold Dickens in her day. Then she moved to Stratford-upon-Avon.Stratford was a sleepy, little English town. With one claim to fame -- William Shakespeare.And when Marie appointed herself champion of conservation in...

*Includes pictures *Includes Serling's own quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes, a bibliography, and online resources for further reading *Includes a table of contents "There's nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." - Rod Serling A lot...

*Includes pictures *Includes Bierce's quotes about his own life and career *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." -...

Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever. Rupert Mann has worked with the past all his life, and is interested in how we...

The present generation knows but little of actual slavery. Attempts are sometimes made to color the Institution to make it appear as though the old days of American slavery were patriarchal days to be desired, to surround the Institution with a glamour as though...

The true story told in his own words, a former agent whose career stretched from the snow capped mountains of Colorado where he trained Tibetan freedom fighters, to the killing fields of Mississippi Burning where he infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan. This is the...

Carole Shelby Carnes does for Shelby, Mississippi, what Laura Ingalls Wilder did for the Great Plains and what Lucy Maud Montgomery did for Prince Edward Island. Memorializing this small Delta town from its roots through its heyday, Carnes tells the story of several incredible...

A Compelling Story of Survival, Love and Resilience. The spellbinding true story of a young girl in a close-knit coal miner's family unfolds in Germany during six years of World War II and the years that follow. Ursula and her brothers experience normal childhood...

In the course of the Second World War, more than a quarter of a million European and American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies and the Pacific. They went on to suffer years of deprivation and brutality,...

In 1870, having worked his way up from humble beginnings in South Wales, John Hughes although only semi-literate, was a successful inventor, wealthy industrialist and family man living in London. At the age of 55 he decided to leave everything behind and move to...

Since Leon Trotsky's My Life was first published, it has been regarded as a unique political, literary and human document.Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, it contains the earliest authoritative account of the rise of Stalinism and the expulsion of...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more involvement in British Middle East strategy during World War I than the Agreement for which he is now...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading After the Civil War, the fight for civil rights spawned a multitude of heroic African-American activists, but it is remembered in large part for the work of a few iconic African-American men of...

Arthur John Montgomery enlisted in the 10th Hussars on 4th May 1897 just in time to be ready for deployment when war was declared with the puny Boer Republics in 1899. They were shipped out on two vessels, one of which, the SS Ismore,...

This work traces Robert Gourley and his family as he moved from Tennessee to Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana. Information is provided about his 18 children and their descendants over several generations. It also references other closely related Gourleys.Author: Frank a. Gourley JrISBN-10: 172263152XISBN-13:...

This is the story of a former ARVN Medical Doctor who, after the fall of Saigon in 1975, spent nearly five years in a so-called Communist re-education camp. After release, his family fled the country by boat and reached Indonesia. Eventually they were allowed...

On Call 24/7 chronicles the life experiences and lessons learned that have molded the outstanding career of Bill Lyght as a Black army lieutenant colonel and as a Black police executive. He tells the story of his grandparents and parents and the impressions that...

Carl's Story begins in the woods near St. Mihiel, France, almost a century ago on September 16, 1918. On that victorious day, when the US Army won its first battle in Europe and the war was just days from ending, Carl Willig, a doughboy...

This book completes Shimon Redlich's autobiographical trilogy about his childhood and adolescence in wartime Europe and in early Israel. It bears witness to the adjustment of one young immigrant -one among thousands - to the realities of life in the new country.Author: Shimon RedlichISBN-10:...

In this collection of thirty interviews compiled by John Cheever's biographer Cheever moves from gentlemanly reticence in the early pieces to forthright commentary upon a variety of subjects in the later ones. This admirably articulate author of The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer, and...

Radical thinker and writer Emma Goldman presents her life story and memories in Living My Life, first published in 1931. Originally two volumes, it is published here as a combined edition. From her arrival in New York as a 20-year-old seamstress, when she immediately...

This is the story of Misha, a young Russian boy who survived the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany during World War II. For 900 days (1941-1944) three million Leningraders endured starvation, lack of water, electricity, and fuel, living on one small piece of...

One of the military leaders of South America's long fight for independence from Spain, Argentinean general Jos de San Mart n (1778-1850) is not well known outside Spanish-speaking lands. But his revolutionary spirit and legend as a great hero of Argentina-and of all of...

If I ever wavered under the consideration, that the Almighty, in some way, ordained slavery, and willed my enslavement for his own glory, I wavered no longer. I had now penetrated the secret of all slavery and oppression, and had ascertained their true foundation...

Author: J. P. NettlISBN-10: 1597405655ISBN-13: 9781597405652Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 564Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.14d

The main character in this book, a true, real life person, was an unassuming man brought up in a large, working class family. His life would begin in 1918 and he and his family would survive the depression on near poverty wages. He would...

Gathering eggs, planting crops, feeding hogs: firsthand experience of these grows more distant with each new generation. From 1914 to 1964, however, a West Texas farmer named William G. DeLoach quietly recorded this life-style. He described weather, plantings, harvests, births, and deaths in his...

The author of ""The Ultimate Golf Trivia Book"" gathers candid memories and insights into ""the Hawk"" through more than 100 original stories and observations offered by friends, peers, partners, and apprentices.Author: Mike TowleISBN-10: 158182078XISBN-13: 9781581820782Publisher: Cumberland House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.50h...

First in a series of books written by Glenda Carlile about Oklahoma women, this title is now in its second edition. It traces the lives of a variety of women who contributed to the formation of the state including Anna Overholser, Elva Ferguson, Cattle...

As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents' home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna's saddle in the upstairs hall, the San Jacinto sword over the mantle, and where she kept her doll's clothes in...

A biography of a Polish immigrant who rose to the top of Wall Street in the Roaring Twenties and abandoned it after the Crash.Author: Robert C. Perez, Edward F. WillettISBN-10: 1568330480ISBN-13: 9781568330488Publisher: Madison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/1995Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.25w x 0.95dReview...

Books about Jane Addams-founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history-come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. "Davis has written not only the...

Dr. Paulette E. Terrelonge has a passion for nursing. She followed her childhood dream to become a nurse and God made it possible. She believes that education is the key to success and set out on an educational path. She first acquired a Diploma...