Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Japan Tourism. Travel Guide, Vacation, Holiday, Business, Environmental Study. Japan is truly timeless, a place where ancient traditions are fused with modern life as if it were the most natural thing in the world I've lived in Tokyo for 15 years now and am...

Orkney History. Entire History, Historical Sites, Historical Events, People and Tradition. The earliest written reference to Orkney is by the Greek explorer, Pytheas, from Marseilles, who may have circumnavigated Orkney about the year 325 BC, and claimed to have sighted the edge of the...

Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd's memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions...

Dyslexia-Smart: tailored for dyslexic readers but can be read by anyone. As deep coal mining has now ended as an industry in the UK, this book is part of an enduring record of mining life over a long period in the East Midlands. The...

Pavel Krasheninnikov (born 1964) is a prominent Russian politician, state official, and professor of law.He studied at Sverdlovsk School of Law and then did graduate work there. He subsequently taught at the Ural State Law University. In the 1990s he served as an expert...

John Rutter (1796-1851), was a man of many talents and achievements, a polymath who lived in Shaftesbury, North Dorset, at a time of great change in our society. He was an author, printer, publisher, social and political reformer, public servant, philanthropist and lawyer. He...

Sir Henry Neville - the true author of Shakespeare's works - the discovery that created a sensation in the literary world. Shakespeare historian, Brenda James, always felt that the dedication to the sonnets may have contained a code - but for what purpose? How...

Oliver Wynne Hughes was born in Pwllheli and lived his boyhood years in Cricieth, Caernarfon and Ffestiniog. Educated in Liverpool and at London University, he also took an MSc in Strategic Studies at Aberystwyth. He has been a schoolmaster, was Bursar at Coleg Harlech...

This regional classic brings together a collection of stories of northwestern Ontario.Author: Charles WilkinsISBN-10: 1896219330ISBN-13: 9781896219332Publisher: Natural Heritage BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2001Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

From the trips to the general store to battles with bedbugs and falling cows, Five Pennies brings to life the experiences of a boy growing up in the early west. Filled with details about pioneer life, each story gives insight into the difficulties, challenges,...

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and film, with little heed paid to the early records by men who knew Musashi,...

Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At the end of 1947, future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion realized that once British forces left Palestine...

Here, then, I offer the account of a pair of life streams that merged: my own and that of Miss Raymonde van Laar, the beautiful and courageous lady I married, and who is my great true love." So begins A Rose for Raymonde, the...

These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered...

The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. "No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John Mosby."-Edmund Wilson. Southern Classics Series.Author: John S. MosbyISBN-10: 1879941279ISBN-13: 9781879941274Publisher: J. S....

From Easter 1916 until the bitter end of the Civil War, Kerry was embroiled in bloody conflict. Now, for the first time in published form, many of the county's main participants in the struggle tell their own stories. These were narrated to Ernie O'Malley...

Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled through a turbulent period and became one of the most dominant figures in Irish history. Furlong presents...

The author provides the story of how Napoleon Bonaparte founded a dynasty, making his brothers kings, marrying the daughter of an emperor and leaving a legacy strong enough to bring his nephew, Napoleon III, to the throne of France.Author: William H. C. SmithISBN-10: 1852855789ISBN-13:...

John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length...

The story of Harriot Mellon is a unique, individual and perceptive insight into a vanished world of deprivation and privilege. Joan Perkin's book is the amazing story of a remarkable woman: Harriot Mellon, the poor child of strolling players in the late eighteenth century,...

The autobiography of Gerald of Wales, translated from the Latin, offers a compelling picture of medieval life. Gerald of Wales, the son of a Norman Baron and the grandson of a Welsh Princess, is one of the most gifted and entertaining of medieval writers....

Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French soldier of his generation. He made his name as a guerrilla leader in the Breton War of Succession (1341-64) and, as Constable from 1370-80, played a major role in the recovery of France under...

*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"If a man were called upon to fix that period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous he would, without hesitation,...

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." - Boss Tweed"It's hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed's system ... The Tweed ring at...

An Early Sunrise: My New Beginning is my journal written during my four-year battle with cirrhosis of the liver, hepatic encephalopathy, and liver cancer. With the heartfelt gift of life, my hero won my battle and gave me a second chance at life. I...

A look at the life of a 19th Century Irishman who left his peaceful home in Dublin, as a young lawyer, travelled to West Africa in 1873 and covered the Ashanti War as a Special Correspondent of The Times newspaper in London. He next...

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The 1683 Jackman Willett House is a one and one half story house still standing in the Old Town section of Newbury, Essex County. Massachusetts. It is currently owned by the Society of the Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury (SDFSN)....

Alfred the Great was not likely to be king if the circumstances of his life did not happen. He was the youngest son of Aethelwulf, king of Wessex and he had four elder brothers who were in line to succeed in the throne.Yet, as...

A True Story of Young Love Romance and a Death-Defying Escape from Vietnam. #1 Amazon International Bestseller in TWO categories #1 Bestseller in Historical Asian Biographies and Women Writers. EIGHT #1 Hot New Release Lists on Amazon in two countries, USA and CA: Historical...

"A fascinating record of leadership and service about a family that endured war in many guises and extensive hardship with humility and the utmost fortitude." General Sir Peter WallThe book describes four brothers' experiences on the North West Frontier of India in the 1930s,...

For the first time gathered in a single volume, over 300 lectures, discourses, conversation and dialogues, interviews as well as lecture notes given and written by Swami Vivekananda, from 1888 until 1902, the year of his passing.Topics ranging from the Gita, to the Ramayana...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but the battle for love and hope rages on. Stationed in occupied Hamburg, a city physically and emotionally...

This true story is based on the testament and experience of a family who, having been caught up in the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland, were deported by the Soviets to the frozen wastelands of Russia's Siberian Gulag labour camps, where...

This compelling autobiography chronicles the life of Nazlin Rahemtulla, an Ismaili Muslim. Nazlin vividly depicts the origins of Ismailism, and traces her ancestry to the Gujarat in western India. The migration of her grandparents and parents to Uganda follows. She then recounts her early...

Sexual slavery, human experimentation, mass murder, use of bacteriological and chemical weapons, the crimes committed in the name of Emperor Showa are countless. Still seen in the West as a puppet emperor used by unscrupulous military leaders to further their expansionist designs, Emperor Showa,...

From beneath the table a young girl listens to the women of her family tell stories of struggles, love, and laughter.As well as secrets from their past.Stories of Jim New the matriarch of the family, farmer, and moonshiner. Follow his struggles to pull his...

In an era when the world seems to focus on flamboyant superstars, this must-read story reintroduces us to an unusual and nearly extinct class of genuine celebrities. During a long tenure at two very different boarding schools in Switzerland in the 1950's and 1960's,...

An authorized biography of the Dalai Lama and his nearly six decades in exile. The D nouement updates a critically acclaimed first edition of 'Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic" with four new chapters bringing up to date one of history's great struggles to preserve...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, many rulers held the reins of ultimate power. Some of them, like Octavian, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine, and Marcus Aurelius, are still celebrated and...

Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave: Taken from His Own Lips is the story of Thomas Anderson, his conversion to Christianity, and ministry.Author: J. P. Clark, Thomas AndersonISBN-10: 1719032882ISBN-13: 9781719032889Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2018Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...

Alex Askaroff has captivated readers for decades and gained a worldwide following. He has had Nine No1 New Releases on Amazon. We all love stories don't we, especially true ones. Alex has been sharing priceless tales from his corner of England with his avid...

"When you read In the Shadow of the Courthouse, you will experience Clinton, Iowa and the Midwest in a time far different from Clinton today. For Clintonians, it will remind them of many things long forgotten. For others, it will give them a sense...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period....

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after...

The astonishing true story of POW escapee Isaac Camacho. In this exciting first-person recounting, Camacho fights with grit and courage to overcome his impossible circumstances as a POW in the Vietnam War. Shackled, worked like an animal, and routinely interrogated, Camacho plans daily to...

This is Charles Edward Scheideman's fourth book, all of which grew from his years in the RCMP and the experiences of a lifetime. 300 Wasted Years is about the natives of Canada, and to some extent, North America. Charles grew up on the Canadian...

It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist mile Zola is on the run. His crime?Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter "J'accuse"--and losing. Forced to leave Pariswith nothing but the clothes he is standing...

For two years, Jim and Fannie Norris had tried without much success to farm on New Mexico's Gila River. During the second year, when they could see that things were not going well, they made a decision to move to Sycamore where Jim had...

Have you ever asked yourself, why me? I asked myself that same question millions of times. I stopped asking that question because we will never get the answers. I decided to survive rape, physical abuse, verbal abuse, abandonment, rejection, unworthiness, and my childhood being...