Biography & Autobiography - Historical

From George Fabian, the author of the transformative biography of Karl Marx, comes this story of Franz Kafka, the enigmatic star of the literary Pantheon. As he traverses this well-mapped territory, Fabian draws on new evidence and familiarity with Kafka's world centered on Prague...

This is an story for adults about child survivors. One reader commented, "This book should be on someone's best seller list. I love the writing!"-The story of a young African American girl's odyssey through the streets of Los Angeles during the 1960's who learns...

Who was Santa Claus? Did he really exist?If he did exist, when did he live?Perplexed parents are liable to be asked such questions at Christmas time and it is to help them that this book was written.Based on solid historical research it proves conclusively...

Professor Carroll Quigley was a top American historian and theorist on the evolution of civilizations. He believed that knowledge cannot be divided into parts, that the world can be viewed only as an interlocking, complex system. This view complemented his life: he had reveled...

Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine is mainly given by questioning the patient, inspecting the tongue, the complexion and the nails, abdominal palpating and radial pulse taking. From these elements, the therapist, whose interpretation is not thoroughly free of one's own subjectivity, chooses through reasoning...

For the first time gathered in a single volume, over 750 letters written by Swami Vivekananda's own hand, from 1888 until 1902, the year of his passing. In order to preserve Swami Vivekananda's voice, none of his letters has been set aside, from mundane...

Mahatma Gandhi in Photographs retraces, in photographs and detailed comments, the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the India Leader who liberated India from the British Empire using Satyagraha and Ahimsa protest movement--truthfulness and nonviolence.Through hundreds of rare historical photographs, Mahatma Gandhi in Photographs covers Gandhi's...

Adventurer, army officer, eccentric, humorist, practical joker and rake, George Hanger served as equerry to the Prince of Wales in the late eighteenth century and, as a member of the Prince's fast set, actively participated for over a decade in the dissolute life to...

The Men from Miami is a real-life Cold War thriller about the Americans who fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution - then switched sides to try to bring him down. This larger-than-life assortment of adventurers and misfits wreaked havoc across the Caribbean...

Before 1940, Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, had nothing more on his mind than enjoying his teenage years and becoming a champion boxer. But the Nazis' systematic extermination of the Jews quickly put paid to his dreams. Soon he was to face a different...

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl', published in 1861 under the...

Growing up in Soviet Siberia as the son of devout Christian parents, Andrej Voth was no stranger to the pitfalls of adhering to a spiritual faith in the former communist USSR. Here, he tells the story of his formative years and shares his journey...

In 1801, the Canadian government set up a lifesaving establishment on Sable Island.Somebody had to be in charge. That's how the role of Superintendent of Sable Island came to be. In the early 1800s, the Darby family found work running the supply ship between...

At the turn of the 20th century Chinese workers came by the thousands seeking their fortunes on the "Gold Mountain" of North America with the intent of returning to a life of ease in China. A few, like Eng Wing, came to procure "tiles...

Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel. The fanciful might see in this first and accidental fact the presence of this simple and practical man amid the more mystical...

This is the story of one man's journey through life, including the Civil War, three marriages and three children. James Gill, Jr. was a young man whom many would call a rascal. His marriage to Rachel in 1858 was on again and off again...

This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between...

In late 1908 Samuel Paul Crippen leaves familiar Pennsyltucky surroundings and journeys west by iron horse to Oregon. His new diary fills with details of passionate determination for his work and one woman. He becomes as much a father to stepdaughter, Willa Girl, as...

War is hell is an understatement Kenny knew something was wrong as his best friend tripped a wire. For a couple of seconds, they just stared at each other. It was as if his friend was saying good-by. Even though it was only seconds...

Dr. U. Conrad Vincent graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1917, and became the first black intern and resident physician at Bellevue Hospital. Wanting to change the landscape of medicine in New York City, he went on to became one of...

Soldiers go off to fight wars, but what happens to the women they leave behind? Over the span of two years, Roxanne Cibuzar located women who knew and loved men who served in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. She collected their...

This is an exhilarating autobiography of a dreamer, adventurer, historian, and a pioneer. In a captivating narrative that holds the readers attention throughout, Professor Soremekun weaves emotional, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous stories of his life in the context of his beloved family, his unshakeable...

This book is an incredible biography of Evangelist Alta O. Holders life and how she has been hit by four cars and dragged by three of the four and how God miraculously saved her life from those accidents. She is convinced Satan was trying...

An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic. Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own...

Introducing Political Power, a spin-off series from the popular Female Force line. Political Power is a new title that focuses on past and present American politicians. This new graphic novel features the Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush,...

Ralph was a self-made man who took the good examples set by his parents and grandparents, started with very little, cut his losses when necessary, endured the Great Depression without folding and turned a half section of Iowa farm land into a prosperous operation....

Beginning with the story of the youngest sister, Grace, the book takes the different sisters through their life experiences with a bit of fictional license.Author: Carol E. PlimptonISBN-10: 1955177554ISBN-13: 9781955177559Publisher: Primix PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2021Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

Pr'Line mountain (pronounced Pray-leen, short for primary line) was the primary signal site in South Vietnam. Its purpose was to provide coded communication with state-of-the-art Tropospheric Scatter Microwave Communication (Tropo). Pr'Line peeked out of the dense jungle of the Central Highlands of South Vietnam...

SAILOR MAN is an examination of the combat service of James Preston Nunnally, an underage enlistee aboard the USS Fuller in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Popularly known as the "Queen of Attack Transports," the Fuller received a wartime high nine battle stars for...

Time was meaningless. Death was waiting. Anything touching ground zero that showed the barbarous revenge of the Vietcong ended in a dried bloodbath for whoever served South Vietnam's government. This all happened after North Vietnam's last invasion succeeded on April 30, 1975.Humanity absented itself...

This is the self-portrait of one man's journey through life, schooled at two prestigious boarding schools in St Petersburg. He was chosen as one of two chamber pages to Princess Alix at her weding to Tsar Nicholas II. Commissioned into the elite Egersky Life...

The Waller Journals tells a coming of age story based on the letters, diaries, and journal of George Waller. The reader follows George from his humble beginnings in Martinsville, Virginia, a hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains just north of the North Carolina border,...

Wild souls, free spirits, and savage thoughts live on in the remarkable attic of a young girl growing up in the mountainous Pennsylvania Wilds, during the 1960s and 70s, among the grand, historic remains of a turn-of-the-1900s Boomtown. (Richly Illustrated text)The Great Aunt Alice...

A Sophomore track star falling in love with the Senior campus sweetheart rocked the University of Kansas with scandal. Their love produced a little girl who thought her father was dead. The secret about her father lay deep at the bottom of a safety...

"My Bondage and My Freedom" is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass first published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an...

Young Men In Harm's Way follows the true story of Arnold W. Krause, a soldier in Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 25th Division, and his tour in Vietnam from March 1968 to March 1969. While Young Men chronicles the unit's encounters with...

"No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career--from travel to history to her own transition--she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty." --Stuart Emmrich, Vogue The first ever biography of a world famous author and transgender pioneer....

"If I had known Jan Zwartendijk's story before, I would have had filmed that." --Steven Spielberg "Brokken brings these largely unknown men to vivid life, and few readers will come away from the book untouched by their stories. A deeply moving account of a...

There is so much to know about President Lincoln that goes beyond the typical points of data that characterize him and his presidency. To truly get to know him and what drove his thoughts and actions, we need to dive into some of the...

The book tells the unique story of one of rock and rolls greatest bands and their personal history with the city of London. and documents the facts and figures of this time.Author: Ian SnowballISBN-10: 1949515109ISBN-13: 9781949515107Publisher: New Haven Publishing LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2021Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight:...

"We read Wodehouse because he was a master of words. We can read Kent for the same reason". Wooster Sauce, journal of The P.G. Wodehouse Society (UK)A TOUR OF THE COMIC IMAGINATION OF P.G. WODEHOUSEP. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely acknowledged as the greatest...

In 1915, and for the next decade or so, P.G. Wodehouse's fictional world mushroomed within his imagination. His best-known creations, Jeeves and Bertie, arrived in that year, as did Lord Emsworth and many of the Blandings circle; the Oldest Member teed off in 1919;...

SHACKLED has been honored as one of the Shelf Media Group's Notable 100 books of 2019, the Biography winner of the 2019 Independent Press Award, 2018 Global E-Book Awards, 2018 International Book Awards, 2019 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, 2018 Audiobook & Biography Awards Winner...

In a final, short summary of his life and works, David Hume wrote My Own Life as he suffered from gastrointestinal issues that ultimately killed him. Despite his bleak prognosis, Hume remains lighthearted and inspirational throughout. He discusses his life growing up, his family...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and...

Drawing Liberalism is the first book-length critical examination of the political and social impact of the political cartoonist Herbert Block--popularly known as Herblock. Working for the Washington Post, Herblock played a central role in shaping, propagandizing, and defending the ideals of postwar liberalism, a...

This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.Author:...

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow...

This is the second book in the Family of the Raj series. The first book covered the story of the O'Kinealy family from Co. Cavan in southern Ireland. James O'Kinealy emigrated to India arriving on 2nd February 1862 to join the Indian Civil Service....