Biography & Autobiography - Historical

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingAmericans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the battles have...

An updated edition about the lives of two Civil War giants- George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart. This engaging and innovative historical book depicts not only their individual lives and exploits, but also the role of each in specific battles.Author: Thom HatchISBN-10: 1684424577ISBN-13: 9781684424573Publisher:...

The topic of inquiry is a political, military, and economic history of ancient Macedon during the reign of Philip II (359-336) in the fourth century BC. The first two chapters analyze the early history of Macedon and the development of the political, military, social,...

Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's autobiography is...

A daughter of a hard rock miner. Married at the age of sixteen. At nineteen, Cathy Mulroy was hired at mining giant Inco and became one of the first women to work there since the war years in a non-traditional job. In 1930, legislation...

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Bazil and Edith Rozelle have just married in Cincinnati in 1891 and are living a very comfortable life. With lofty expectations they trade that life in to take over her late brother's 114 acre farm in Los Angeles. Their dreams are challenged as they...

While many Holocaust memoirs have flooded the market in recent years, Leon Gleicher's "From Prisoner to Partisan" is a unique contribution that encompasses the complete story of the Holocaust generation. Gleicher begins with the story of everyday life in his small Galician village, comparing...

This study deals with the complex issues of race, history and politics in Caribbean society. In its first part, "Fran ois Besson", it examines the fortunes of a French creole family between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries, and describes their experiences against the...

How could Max and his father possibly have survived the Holocaust when so many did not? This story is the journey of the author and his brother to discover the happenings of their father, Max Gutkin, and his family during the Holocaust. When the...

"If I can get out of here alive, I will never deny my Judaism, whatsoever." Over three years, Shlomo Adler lost his parents, his sister and many members of his extended family. He was in a labor camp, in hiding, a soldier in the...

Abrashe Szabrinski used the Yiddish typewriter given to him by his son Joe to record his unique story of survival and courage during the dark days of WWII. But it was only after his father's death that Joe found out the extent of Abrashe's...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset...

How often does it happen that someone is trying to do something they might think is impossible? This is the case with the story that unfolds in this book titled "A Room at the Palace". The story is about something that nobody have the...

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1893 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With Three Photogravure, Illustrations and ten Plates. Annie Besant (born October 1, 1847, died September 20, 1933).She was a prominent British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

"I hadn't fully understood the transition into the Thousand Year Reich or taken it seriously, so when "comrade" Pitter left the washroom with the words "Heil Hitler," I said jokingly, "Never mind him, you can greet me now and again too." He came back,...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans. A...

*Includes pictures of Red Cloud and other important people in his life. *Includes some of Red Cloud's quotes and an explanation of the publication purported to be his autobiography. *Discusses Red Cloud's relationships with other Indian leaders like Crazy Horse. "Look at me -...

*Includes pictures. *Includes Cronkite's quotes about his life and career. *Examines Cronkite's most legendary coverage of important events like the Kennedy assassination. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "And that's the way it is." - Walter Cronkite A lot of ink has been spilled...

Imagine the presumably pacifist Quaker physician surviving the wilds of frontier Louisiana only to see his descendants marry into families of battle-hardened warriors. One survived being bayoneted nine times in the Revolutionary War; oone was tomahawked to death in the Indian Wars and his...

The sweeping technology that has come to define life on Earth is a monster with very long fingers as the sixth great extinction confirms. Yet where did it come from, and what of its tail? Some say that the tip of its tail reaches...

Enjoy the journey, and embrace the positive change created by the military transition Connie underwent as she served her country, nation, and each and every citizen born in the United States of America. Connies joy comes from serving others through her career and through...

A history, that is so much more. It is a little village in Wisconsin and this is an insider's grasp of what makes it so special.Author: Gerry Fosdal, J. Karl LehmanISBN-10: 1983576891ISBN-13: 9781983576898Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2018Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 7.99h x...

NostradamusIt is difficult to think of many historical figures that have been able to build up such a cult following as Nostradamus. Indeed, he may have lived centuries ago, but his name is still thrown around in the world today whenever a disaster or...

He wasn't supposed to live. The odds were against him, and he beat them. He saw victory in things impossible. He sees the silver lining instead of the darkness. He sees hope when there is none. He speaks inspiration when others delve into the...

Are you a lover of nature? Do you ever wonder what it was like in the good old days? Perhaps you enjoy hearing about families and/or just having fun. These topics are creatively addressed in this book. Emily also speaks of how she first...

In the Book of Genesis, when Cain is confronted by God regarding the death of his brother, he replies, Am I my brothers keeper? Within these pages, players respond affirmatively to this centurys age old question. They took stands against prejudice during times in...

Remembering Our Black Trail Blazers and Their Legacies ll is a departure from Miss Pierce's many books of fiction. It is non-fictional and the second of her two-part black history series. Each brief biography is another authentic glimpse of one trailblazer's life struggles and...

Gale Cooper, a Harvard Medical School educated M.D. forensic psychiatrist, draws on her 20 years of Billy the Kid writings and research to write Cold Case Billy the Kid: The Plot to Steal Billy the Kid's Identity and to Defame Sheriff Pat Garrett as...

Author Gale Cooper's Blandina Segale, The Nun Who Rode on Billy the Kid: Sleuthing a Foisted Frontier Fable, in hardcover and paperback, 546 pages, exposes the first and strangest Billy the Kid hoax, created by a 19th century Sisters of Charity missionary nun to...

Author Gale Cooper's Blandina Segale, The Nun Who Rode on Billy the Kid: Sleuthing a Foisted Frontier Fable, in hardcover and paperback, 546 pages, exposes the first and strangest Billy the Kid hoax, created by a 19th century Sisters of Charity missionary nun to...

Hedda Martens was born in L beck, Germany, on February 5, 1928. She grew up witnessing and experiencing World War II as a child and teenager. Her home was destroyed by British bombers in 1942. In her words, "I was fourteen and I had...

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South America in...

The Caudills are one of America's largest and most historically interesting families. Originating in the South in the early 1700s, they have today spread out across nearly all fifty states, playing a vital role in the settling of America, from Appalachia to the Pacific...

For Katherine and her three American children, Greece was meant to be a one-year refuge from the late 1930's Depression. Her husband's family-owned orchard should have provided for their well-being, but instead embroiled them in legal debate. WWII Axis bombings of Kalamata prompted the...

Stephen J. Hiemstra (PhD) chronicles his early life, schooling, military service, and civilian service in the federal government. Stephen is a Professor Emeritus at Purdue University and former Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Public Policy at George Washington University. He...

"Paula's Window: Papa, the Bielski Partisans, and A Life Unexpected" is the gripping Holocaust memoir of a Jewish girl's waking nightmare in a world gone mad and hope regained in the ashes. Artist Paula Burger's carefree childhood in Novogrudek, Poland, exploded when the Nazis...

Dr. John Bull is a fascinating look at the life and times of one of the most influential English composers in musical history. Leigh Henry vividly realizes both the events that shaped John Bull as well as the world he inhabited. Through a richly...

A wryly humorous and inspirational story about a proud Alaska Native family struggling to survive in two worlds. Sam and Louise Harper and their ten children make a soul-grinding transition into a modern white-dominated society where they face bigotry, poverty, and illness. Yet, Louise,...

Henri lived only a few short years in Europe before the family moved to the Belgian Congo, a country deep in the heart of Africa. These were the early 1900's, at a time when the colonial era was in full swing, the White Man...

Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790-1862) commited his life to writing books that would entertain, instruct and edify children and young people. This volume is one of his very best as it gives moving details about the lives of the men who laid the foundation of...

Called "the George Washington of South America," Bolivar was the revolutionary leader against the oppressive Spanish rule. His vision of a united South America was not to be, because of his dictatorial methods that were widely resented and led to separatist movements. Today, his...

This history-making book gives readers a rare look at a mostly forgotten but dramatically important reality: rural life in the twentieth century. It is a selection of Gwendoline P. Clarke's colourful, richly detailed and heart-warming newspaper columns about day-to-day life on the one hundred...

ALBERT EINSTEINAlbert Einstein will forever be remembered as one of the world's greatest minds. His achievements are numerous, and his life story is an incredible one. Einstein lived in many places around the world, and left a huge footprint behind. In this book you...

Tibet struggle, a China minority Environment. History, Custom and Tradition. The living style of Tibetan nomads hasn't changed a lot since the kingdom of Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century. They always wear Tibetan leather robes and lead a nomadic life in the northern...

Ryukyu and Okinawa Environment. A History. The Ancient Ryukyus generally refers to the period from the 12th century, at the beginning of the Gusuku (Castle) Period, through to the establishment of the Ryukyu Kingdom, to the invasion of the Ryukyus by the Shimazu Clan...