Biography & Autobiography - Historical

For fans of The Crown and Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, a deliciously entertaining collection of 101 fascinating and funny anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother--one for each year of her life.During her lifetime, 1900 to 2002, the Queen Mother was as famous...

A fascinating classic account of Nietzsche's travels in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, where he found inspiration for his major works First published in 1929, Nietzsche in Italy has never been out of print in France but has never been translated...

'Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small: exceptional fishing; room for two more guns' - read the advertisement in the Agony column of The Times. Colonel Fawcett and his son Jack had...

A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler--His Life and Legend (1943), is a psychoanalytical report of Hitler prepared for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the CIA, by American psychologist Walter C. Langer in collaboration with three other psychologists--Professor Henry A. Murray, Dr....

Now a Netflix documentary The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America...

Marie Gibson, more popularly as "Buckskin Mary" is considered one of Canada's and America's legendary lady rodeo riders of the 1920s. Using first-hand accounts written by Marie herself, historian and relative April Farnham tells the story of Marie's rise to rodeo fame during the...

This Book "International Short Stories: French" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole...

Plutarch's Lives made easy!The story of Rome's founding has captured our imaginations for more than a millennia. What is it about the narrative of ancient Rome that fascinates us so? In Plutarch's Life of Romulus, we return to the scene of Rome's beginning with...

Lucrezia Borgia is among the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the Renaissance. The daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she was intensely involved in the political life of Italy during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. While her marriage alliances helped advance the...

Deep in the bottom of her late mother's cedar chest, Barbara Gales Macaulay discovered a lifeline to the past: more than 300 letters written by her late father, Richard "Dick" Gales to his wife "Hay" (Hazel) when he was a soldier during World War...

Deep in the bottom of her late mother's cedar chest, Barbara Gales Macaulay discovered a lifeline to the past: more than 300 letters written by her late father, Richard "Dick" Gales to his wife "Hay" (Hazel) when he was a soldier during World War...

Courage. Heroism. Endurance. These qualities are emblematic of the stories of thousands of Canadians who fought during World War II. Canadians like Tim Carlon, a young Montrealer who went off to war, doing his part in a global struggle whose legacy remains as relevant...

The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams is the most engaging and lively of literary correspondences - at once a portrait of two geniuses the testimony of their remarkable friendship, and a seedbed of ideas about American poetry. With a 1951 fan...

While recuperating in a hospital after World War II, a Polish refugee wrote at length about his remarkable experiences in war-torn Europe. The Defiant, his memoir, is the account of a young man who refused to yield to the German onslaught and chose instead...

Since 1066 when William the Conqueror took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own; several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only...

" thelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way...

A genre-changing work of biography Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked....

For the last three decades, Chef Alan Michals has been oneof the most coveted and highly respected personal chefs andestate managers in the business. He's lived and worked inthe private homes and megayachts of the rich and famous, including former presidents, movie moguls, rock...

Fresh out of a master's program, living in Chicago, and eager to pursue a career in his chosen academic field of Russian Area studies, Kenneth Maher eagerly accepted an offer to work for a U.S. company in the former U.S.S.R. Arriving in Siberia, brimming...

Perhaps the defining event of the 20th century in America was the Great Depression of 1928. Following on the heels of the Roaring 20s, the Depression smashed the dreams and hopes of many who thought the good times would never end. It impacted the...

This Edinburgh boy was born in 1751 and his family and background are discussed in colourful detail.He rose to become the British Consul-General in Spain, just as Napoleon made his move against the Iberian Peninsula.Sir John Hunter's famous description of the Madrid insurrection of...

The treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the b鹹he-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted...

This work is both a family history and asocial history of Scotland with a particular focus on Edinburgh. The families are traced from their roots in the seventeenthcentury into the twentieth. However, all their wandering and failures, and births and marriages, are in themselves...

Questions of legal extraterritoriality feature prominently in international investment and WTO trade law, international human rights law, state responsibility, and a large number of other areas. Nevertheless, many accounts are yet to grapple with its historical practice and its ramifications for the present and...

This is a story of the experiences of a young man named Raymond F. O'Neill, born in 1896, who enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the outset of World War One. He had taken an interest in radios and radio technology at age 14,...

Captain Thomas W. Badger and his wife, Jennie, were traveling from California aboard the ship Central America when it sank in a hurricane off the coast of South Carolina in September 1857. More than 400 passengers and crew perished in the tragedy, and millions...

"When Cathy Stewart asked me to edit her father's memoir, I never expected to fall in love with the story or the story teller. But I fell hard. Hilltop Echoes will take you to the hardscrabble depression-era farm life of Arthur Stewart's youth in...

An extraordinary autobiography that goes back two generations before the celebrated novelist's birthAn autobiography that begins with one's birth begins too late, in the middle of the story, sometimes at the end. So begins Mary Lee Settle's memoir. Her story carries within it inherited...

Why Not the Best?, originally published in 1975, is President Carter's presidential campaign autobiography, the book that introduced the world to Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and asked the American people to demand the best and highest standards of excellence from our government.Author: Jimmy CarterISBN-10:...

"Anyone who has experienced loss and grief will find solace in this memoir by a gifted writer who exquisitely expresses her truth, pain, courage and capacity for love. A must read to be shared with others!" - Nancy Slonim Aronie, author of Writing from...

Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made. Created largely while she was seated in canoes and bateaux, the diary documents great events in a familiar way and opens our eyes to a side of...

In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: "A tantalizingly novelistic history lesson" (Kirkus). In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister,...

"There was never a moment in our lives that we were not reminded that our father was the finest, bravest, most gallant, and best-looking man who ever lived and that he was destined for unimaginable glory. This we took for granted. Being our father's...

This bestselling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons has been revised and updated to include celebrities like Betty White, Alex Trebek, and many more. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and...

Pamela Jackson, n馥 Mitford, is perhaps the least well known of the illustrious Mitford sisters, yet her story is just as captivating, and more revealing. Despite shunning the bright city lights that her sisters so desperately craved, she was very much involved in the...

Author: Grantlee KiezaISBN-10: 0733340539ISBN-13: 9780733340536Publisher: ABC BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2023Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.16w x 1.30d

Raised in poverty in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, the late Levon Helm clawed his way to fame and fortune in the music industry, lost it all and got it back.When he died in April 2012, the legacy he left revolved largely around a Rock and...

In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his...

A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of...

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician,...

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as...

Author: Amity ShlaesISBN-10: 0063287161ISBN-13: 9780063287167Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2023Pages: 592Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.98w x 1.97d

Nuts! The Life & Times of General Tony McAuliffeAward winning Author Tom McAuliffe, chronicles General "Nuts!" McAuliffe's, Siege at Bastogne during WW2's crucial Battle of the Bulge and his 35+ year career defending America.Early in December 1944, Nazi gunfire shattered the silence of the...

"My heart was in a cage. My life was a long struggle to find happiness, to overcome fear, and to find love I had lost. I did not give up, and that is what my story is about." -- Dr. Ichak K. AdizesSeeing every...

Dr. Werner J. Stamm's autobiography chronicles his life as a young boy in Germany during World War II, and the almost equally difficult postwar years, ending with his immigration to the United States in 1952 at the age of twenty. Dr. Stamm's narrative includes...

Bill Osborne Childress and Rev. Bob Childress (The Man Who Moved a Mountain) were born in the late 1800s in "The Hollow" of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, not far from the North Carolina border. They were brothers. This carefully researched book is...

The author received the coveted Root Tilden scholarship at New York University Law School graduating in 1964. This is his story of how he ended up learning to practice law in a Colorado hard rock mining town.Author: John DunnISBN-10: 1977257038ISBN-13: 9781977257031Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

People from Barrow and Dalton often call Furness Abbey, "Our Abbey". It's a place we are fond of and proud of. We love the tranquil setting, the history of the ruins and the stories that abound from its past. Its cloisters and Chapter House,...

GARDNER Vol. II: Cowboys and Gunslingers contains over 30 biographies on cowboys, gunslingers, outlaws, and lawmen surnamed Gardner. The volume has bad men and good men, who lived on the outside of the law and the men who enforced the law, including a list...

Anticipation of adventure pushes a young man to head to sea to work on ships. This narrative describes the process of pursuing a seagoing position, chronologizing over three decades of his career and of running the latitudes and longitudes around the world. Sailing on...