Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian "Mandate of Heaven", a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Roman Catholic leader never lost this mandate in the eyes of his people;...

Among the many books aboutAmong the many books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of life as a Confederate Soldier. The author, Sam Watkins was an engaging writer with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier...

When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going to get...

We should have begun to face the sobering probability that we were heading for the hell of battle, but we were kids. We'd heard of war in far-off places, places like Italy and Africa, and the faraway Pacific, but we were in England. We...

Life in Hiroshima during the war was difficult for six-year-old Keiji and the Nakazawa family, but they made the best of it. On his way to school one bright August morning, Keiji was unaware his hometown would soon be turned into a world of...

The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her...

Many books, fiction and nonfiction alike, purport to probe the inner workings of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many attempt to create spine-tingling suspense or allege that America's civilian spy operation has run amok and been infested with rogues and criminals. Not that The...

Author: Paul KentISBN-10: 1948585774ISBN-13: 9781948585774Publisher: Leapfrog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 240Format: Paperback

Twenty-Four Months That Changed the World and Us is Sharon Canfield Dorsey's most powerful book yet. It chronicles the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 with honesty, compassion, and her signature humor. Topics range from the serious to the sublime-from politics and global warming...

A high school dropout, author James Donald Etheridge thought it was important to upgrade his status. He decided to exchange his less-than-perfect world for a more-less-than-perfect world as a soldier in the US Army. In My Life's Recollections, he tells how he entered the...

A high school dropout, author James Donald Etheridge thought it was important to upgrade his status. He decided to exchange his less-than-perfect world for a more-less-than-perfect world as a soldier in the US Army. In My Life's Recollections, he tells how he entered the...

A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania. Their experiences of hardships, ingenuity, and bravery enabled these stalwart people to survive and create a...

Enamored by the western frontier, British immigrant Cashup Davis, his wife Mary Ann, and nine children became one of the first white families to settle on the Palouse's spectacular rolling hills in eastern Washington Territory. Living at first in a simple sod house, they...

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations...

The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's intellectual energy and her...

**Number 47 on Book Authority's 94 Best Nazi Germany Books of All Time ** Walter's Welcome is the story of Walter Neisser and the more than fifty members of his family he helped to escape Nazi Germany. The story is told through the letters...

The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th century....

This book traces the Meads' history back 842 years to Normandy, the Chaneys' 1100 years, also to Normandy, the Whiteheads' 500 years to England, and the McKernans' 200 years to Ireland.Author: Robert D. &. Susan C. MeadISBN-10: 1387798871ISBN-13: 9781387798872Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2022Pages: 476Format: HardcoverWeight:...

In a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that has remained intact for more than a half-century. Even now, long after her death in 1994, she remains a figure of enduring--and endearing--interest. Yet, while innumerable books have focused...

A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of...

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable...

A full life and times biography of S?eyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. S?eyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to Iran, and from the...

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and never-before-published photographs. Sparked by long-forgotten gifts...

As a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent tensions and contradictions of his era: a man of the church deeply involved in the new science, a nobleman and courtier drawn to ascetism and theology, a controversial polemicist involved...

A "splendid" (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's defeat...

"The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller was first published in 1903. Her stories and her accomplishments are truly inspirational.Helen's life was a challenge every day, but in this book we discover that is not how she tells the story at all. Helen's...

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games...

Dennis Reaville was born in Saskatchewan in 1912. BAREFOOT THROUGH THE STUBBLE is the story of his boyhood years from 1916 to 1925; from the Indians' trek on the Old Battleford trail; through school episodes; family, farm and community events; dealing with the cold...

The memoir of a Holocaust survivor keeping alive the stories of his generation. For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. Volunteering at Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre, Phillip has listened tirelessly to their memories,...

I do not think that I believe in ghosts, but just for this morning, just for the time it will take to ramble through this quiet city under clouds the colour of tin, or of pigeons' wings, I am going to believe in them....

A truly extraordinary and intimate personal memoire of an equally extraordinary man. A story that carries the reader from a childhood in colonial Africa to the inside of the arms trade encompassing the glitter of Monte Carlo and the oligarchs of modern day Russia.A...

9/11/2001 is a date that should never be forgotten. This book is a collection of ten individual stories that recall that horrific day. Four of the contributors were in the World Trade Center Towers when the planes hit. Two more who share their stories...

Celebrate illustrator-writer Howard Chaykin's life and works through a career spanning zine that encompasses his life, controversies, and biographical interview that starts with his birth in 1950 through his childhood reading comic books and watching films during the 1960s, his training under Gil Kane,...

In honor and celebration of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee (70 years on the throne!), escape to a bygone era with this cheeky and endearing royal memoir. Florence Bramford (circled) was a Ladies' Maid to the Ladies in Waiting of two Queen Elizabeths from 1939...

This book contains a tour that I gave as a historic interpreter at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. It takes the readers from the front lawn to the porch to the hall, then goes room by room throughout the author's family home,...

The life story of a WW II, Navajo Code Talker. Proceeds of the Book go towards the Samuel F. Sandoval Navajo Code Talker Museum and Hope Center for Veterans and their dependents, connected with the Upchurch Foundation, named in memory of Clint Upchurch who...

A twelve-year-old boy in Budapest evades the Nazis and lives under Communist rule until the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. A nine-year-old German girl and her family flee from the invading Allies, becoming refugees in their own country. A memoir of the less told stories...

This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West's 'Enlightenment' period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Statistics are no substitute for judgment." - Henry Clay Frick The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular...

When the Jones girls arrived there in 1886, the Texas Panhandle was an open frontier. Fort Elliott fired a cannon every daybreak, dancehall girls courted gamblers in Old Mobeetie, and vast herds of sheep and cattle grazed the rolling plains. "Footings" for "nesters" were...

After emigrating from Germany to Michigan at age seven, Johannes Strieter (1829-1920) served as a confessional Lutheran pastor in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana amid almost unbelievable hardships. Though not a well-known person himself, his life's path intersected with that of numerous distinguished persons--August...

Of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." - Eugene V. Debs History is full of tales of men who...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." - Eugene V. Debs History is full of tales of men who...

Well, Jay. Last summer your mother asked me to write some of my memories of childhood. Here they are. Some are pure memories, some have been told to me, and some are simply my childhood daydreams. Some of the experiences made profound impressions on...

Autobiography of Black Hawk or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak by Black Hawk. Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in 1767 was a band leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States. I was born at the Sac village,...

Wolfram Forster grew up in Berlin during the reign of Hitler. It was a time when German citizens were so deprived of freedom that a dentist was executed simply for confiding in a patient that he held a shadow of doubt about the fate...

Meticulous research has led to this insider's look at the financial dealings, political battles, and family feuds that shaped Adolph Sutro's life while he, as San Francisco's first Jewish mayor, brought glamor and amusement to the city on the bay during its golden age....

The following transcription is from the private diary of Private Nicke that he kept from the time he left basic training until his discharge. It was originally an address book that he kept in his breast pocket. The book is 3" x 5" and...

Was Jean Lafitte a pirate, a hero, a patriot or a scoundrel? Whatever the true nature of the man, he has become the romanticized Robin Hood of early Louisiana history. Mary Devereux's highly enjoyable account displays clearly why "legend" is the proper word for...