Biography & Autobiography - Historical

'Three Score Years and Ten' is an American West memoir by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve that recalls the author's life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the West.Author: Charlotte Ouisconsin Van CleveISBN-10: 1523909455ISBN-13: 9781523909452Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2016Pages: 110Format:...

This biography of the British Labour politician J.R. Clynes traces his remarkable rise from an impoverished Lancashire mill-hand to cabinet minister. It looks at the role he played in the 'New Unionism' of the late nineteenth century, and his participation in the Lloyd George...

This book is a socio-autobiography of a young man, born in a Jewish town at the foot-hills of the Carpathian Mountains in 1925 to a devout Jewish family, and his journey through the Holocaust toward academia in the United States. This new edition also...

This is a true historical account of a young woman born and raised in Vietnam; and how a Vietnamese family was torn apart by war, communism, an the CIA.Author: Yung KrallISBN-10: 1517022630ISBN-13: 9781517022631Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1995Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work...

This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with...

Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each...

Waiting for Daylight, by Henry Major Tomlinson, is something between a diary and a volume of essays, where recollections of World War One war-time London jostle reflections on "Bookworms," on "Figureheads" and on "Ruskin," all written in a style of distinction and charm. Contents:...

At the age of 78, Julia Turnau Wall composed a hand-written manuscript, memoirs of her family's origins in Germany, the ancestral home of Marssel near Hanover, and stories of the French, Russian and Swedish occupations of that region in the time of Napoleon. Intertwined...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

Chaucer's Official Life is a definitve biography of the great English poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. The researches of Sir Harris Nicolas, Dr. Furnivall, Mr. Selby and others have provided us with a considerable mass of detailed information regarding the life and career of Geoffrey Chaucer....

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the...

Beginning with an incident described in the historical novel The Crimson Blight, this true story of one family's flight from Stalin's homicidal terror is recounted in rich detail by the youngest member of that family. He recollects the evil aftermath of the first Soviet...

Mustapha Kemal Ataturk ('Father of the Turk'), is the myth that was a man that was claimed as a visionary who became a warrior, leader and statesmen. The West knew him first as the commanding Ottoman officer in World War I's Battle of Gallipoli...

A story of resilience and hope-the life of a simple Palestinian girl who survived five wars, countless refugee camps, raised thirteen children, and now shares both her suffering and wisdom.Author: Thuraya Ahmad Hasan GhannamISBN-10: 1504971159ISBN-13: 9781504971157Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2016Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x...

This is the first volume of the Biographical Dictionary of South Sudan, an ongoing research project begun in July 2001. As the subtitle of the book, the Notable Firsts, suggests, this volume is primarily concerned with historically significant South Sudanese personalities, deceased and contemporary...

Author: Vic CurrierISBN-10: 1503547736ISBN-13: 9781503547735Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2015Pages: 458Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Author: Mustafa ChowdhuryISBN-10: 150351496XISBN-13: 9781503514966Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2015Pages: 620Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.37d

Augustus is a classic Greek history biography by C. Suetonius Tranquillus. Augustus (23 September 63 BC - 19 August 14 AD) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.Author: Alexander Thomson,...

A fifth-generation Galvestonian writes a family history beginning with the arrival on the island of her great, great grandfather, a British sea captain from the Isle of Man. There are dramatic events as he establishes his business, raises his children, and sees the Great...

Richard Madden (1798-1886) Irishman and British colonial administrator, crusader against slavery and biographer of the United Irishmen, subverted his postings to Jamaica, Cuba, West Africa and Western Australia to champion the civil rights of oppressed peoples. He played a key role in securing the...

Thomas's memoir, A Boy's Experience in the Civil War: 1860-1865, was published in 1904 and records his memory of the war. It begins with Hughes's father's release from Federal custody in Ohio and describes the time his family spent in Richmond. Hughes emphasizes that...

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, which he led, during which a massacre of Tibetans...

Poland famously became the starting point of WWII when Hitler invaded on September 1, 1939. Less well-known is the plight of nearly two million Poles who, swept up in an ethnic cleansing nightmare, were deported to Soviet gulags by the Stalin regime. An amazing...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Aubrey Stewart, PlutarchISBN-10: 1499577729ISBN-13: 9781499577723Publisher: Createspace...

This book examines a decisive five-year period in the life of Jacques Pierre Brissot, one of the influential leaders of the French Revolution. An idealistic, somewhat naive journalist who became a member of the national assembly, Brissot championed the new American republic as an...

ECHOES OF SOLOMON is a story of a man who is well educated by Solomon's wisdom. The only man who has read the book of Solomon given to him by one of God's handpicked angels; an angel who was assigned to watch over him,...

"While sketching every period of his life, I have concentrated myself on those passages which trace the steps by which the shepherd became the king. It was in these that his character was formed, his sweetest psalms composed, and those manifold experiences encountered which...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.Author: Virginia Armistead GarberISBN-10: 1498199305ISBN-13: 9781498199308Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.69d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1877 Edition.Author: Maria WrightISBN-10: 1498185517ISBN-13: 9781498185516Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.35d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.Author: William Wingate SewallISBN-10: 1498184448ISBN-13: 9781498184441Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d

""Chronicles Of The Cochrans"" is a book written by Ida Cochran Haughton that tells the story of the Cochran family. The book covers the history of the family from their arrival in America in the late 1600s to the present day. The Cochrans were...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.Author: Hall CaineISBN-10: 1498119352ISBN-13: 9781498119351Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 594Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.20d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.Author: Howard ButlerISBN-10: 1498113362ISBN-13: 9781498113366Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 554Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.12d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1893 Edition.Author: Alexandre DumasISBN-10: 1498082548ISBN-13: 9781498082549Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.90d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1731 Edition.Author: Henri de BoulainvilliersISBN-10: 1498069967ISBN-13: 9781498069960Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 410Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.84d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1855 Edition.Author: Georgiana FullertonISBN-10: 1498004660ISBN-13: 9781498004664Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.Author: William E. DoddISBN-10: 1497970296ISBN-13: 9781497970298Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.Author: Robert BridgesISBN-10: 1497948657ISBN-13: 9781497948655Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: Gerry L. PrinsenISBN-10: 1497938392ISBN-13: 9781497938397Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities' civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818-1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments...

This is an authentic, well researched, and richly illustrated account of Jackson Hole's legendary and colorful Cal Carrington. It is a tale that goes beyond imagination. As a young child in Sweden, Cal Carrington is given up by religiously zealous parents to Mormon missionaries....

On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecs ny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for "the orderly and humane...

Back in the golden age of football, before the big, multi-million dollar contracts, and prescription turf, Baltimore Colt and Hall of Fame tackle Art Donovan was one of the all-time gridiron greats. But what most people don't know is his connection to professional boxing....

*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...

In March 2011 my father Arthur Charles Evans CBE, author of Sojourn in Silesia, reached the end of his long and successful life just short of his 95th birthday. Here in France I was left with copies of his letters written from Stalag VIIIb...

Come take a trip down memory lane with us. Enjoy seeing familiar places and reading about people you knew. Read about familiar communities such as Myrtle, Couch, Kosh, Thomasville, Alton, Thayer; and many places like Grand Gulf, Eleven Point River, Greer Mill, Many Springs,...

The context is Cape Town, South Africa of the 1930s as seen through the pre-teen eyes of the author, Yousuf 'Joe' Rassool when 'life was one interminable summer'. This family history covers the era of Gandhi in South Africa through the early Anti-Apartheid struggle....

I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West-the West that I knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for the...