Biography & Autobiography - Historical

First published in 1917, "Rasputin the Rascal Monk" is a study of Rasputin and his influence over the Russian royal family during the latter years of the Romanov Dynasty. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869 - 1916) was a Russian mystic and holy man famous for...

We know that there were dogs in Victorian Britain, but who were the 'Doggy People' who kept them, bred them, showed them, worked with them and cared for them? Chapter by chapter, this book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians...

Family Gorham Plausible Speculations is an historical genealogical record of the Family Gorham, which includes a lineage of emperors, nobles, crusaders and clergy from early medieval times to everyday people in contemporary North America. It begins in mid-eighth-century France with Charlemagne through his daughter...

This book chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and later Kentucky. Family figures are described in their own distinctive historical contexts, and an extensive...

Author: Mark WashburneISBN-10: 1524550337ISBN-13: 9781524550332Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2016Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

The ancestry of Alice de Plumpton included knights, nobles, kings, queens, emperors, crusaders, Magna Charta Surety Barons, religious and military leaders, and other prominent historical figures. Alice de Plumpton was a relatively obscure member of a well-known aristocratic family in Yorkshire, England. She was...

Winston Churchill: The political career of the greatest Briton Churchill is known all over the world for the speeches he gave, his sharp wit, his humorous observations, and most importantly, for being one of the greatest British statesman to ever have lived. Having led...

This book is the second in a series of three volumes. It concerns the histories and genealogies of the Randolph family's ancestors across Europe. There are a great many excellent books about the Randolph family, but to my knowledge most of this material has...

A quick reference guide to the sins of Alexander Hamilton as a 'founding father.' Every book on him lists these, even those like the Ron Chernow book which absolutely gush his praises... but they are all buried within thousands of pages and are not...

The story of one man's experiences in World War 2 aboard a Submarine Hunting Destroyer EscortAuthor: William Henry Wenzel II, William Wenzel I.ISBN-10: 1521424640ISBN-13: 9781521424643Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2018Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d

The life and times of a Grimsby marine engine fitter, told in prose and song. My father John Evardson was the grandson of Latvian immigrants who came to the east coast of England in the late nineteenth century to work in the burgeoning fishing...

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...

Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his...

Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history...

"The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912" from Lillie de Hegermann-Lindencrone. American singer, and latterly a diplomat's wife (1844-1928).Author: The Perfect Library, Lillie De Hegermann-LindencroneISBN-10: 151422688XISBN-13: 9781514226889Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2015Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42d

The Story of My Life (1903) is the autobiography of Helen Keller. Written while she was an undergraduate student at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Story of My Life was a joint effort between Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan, and Anne's husband John...

Biography of the distinguished American authority on international law, representative to various foreign powers, and lifelong promoter of good will among nations.Author: Elizabeth Feaster BakerISBN-10: 1512810029ISBN-13: 9781512810028Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1937Pages: 438Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

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...

For those who have ever desired to visit their past and translate those memories to the present, this book speaks directly to those specific concerns. The world we live in has become an environment of fear. My life growing up on the Blackfeet Indian...

This is a three part story. Firstly Charles Babbage's ancestors through the ages, secondly, his own history - his life as a child and a teenager (and also his family life and his relationship with the remarkable Ada Bryon), and thirdly what inspired him...

The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William...

This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their reading, and to be called "Children's Lives of Great Men." In this series the place of...

History of King Charles II of England is a classic English royal history by Jacob Abbott. King Charles the Second was the son and successor of King Charles the First. These two are the only kings of the name of Charles that have appeared,...

*Includes pictures *Analyzes both men's lives and most famous works *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "To hold a pen is to be at war." - Voltaire "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in...

"This enchanting volume is not a history of the Victorian age but the portraiture of a woman... Strachey's work is pure art...a narrative as fresh and distinctive as some delicious perfume." -David Muzzey, Political Science Quarterly, (1922) Queen Victoria (1921) is the classic biography...

Author: Bill LyghtISBN-10: 164584353XISBN-13: 9781645843535Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2019Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

In Romania, times were tough back in 1919. As Cecilia and her husband, a preacher, went through many unwanted and unexpected trials and tribulations, Cecilia ended up having to drop out of seminary school, which devastated her. Cecilia, being a mother to many children,...

The Silent Second: The Biography of Martin Capages, Captain USMC is a personal history of a U. S. Marine officer in the Second Marine Division from his enlisted service before World War II, the battle for Okinawa, and with the First Marine Division in...

The story of heartbreak to triumph in the wake of a tragedy. Their first date in college was a U2 concert and after that Lauren and Jack Grandcolas were inseparable. He was mesmerized by her sweetness, fierce intelligence and eyes that were as blue...

Born in a black house, with 3 indulgent cows at one end, sleeping quarters at the other and the requisite peat fire in the middle, my father, a precociously observant child, grew up amid the blissful sounds of skylarks and the stark reality of...

The author characterizes the book as a memoir, entitled, Notable Encounters. As such, he has diligently documented his recollection of dozens of memorable special people that he enjoyed the unique opportunity of meeting over the years of his professional experiences. Many of the names...

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War. In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr. piloted a small skiff across the Charleston Harbor and delivered the fateful order to...

An extraordinary insight into the journey from the Earth to the Moon inspired by the extraordinary personal stories of the astronauts.Author: Lukas VigliettiISBN-10: 1642795860ISBN-13: 9781642795868Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2019Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, letters, and interviews from the prime years of American socialist and labor leader Eugene V. Debs. These include materials relating to some of the great events...

Focus on Survival commences before World War II when Ben, a highly skilled photographer meets Em, a midwife, whilst she is caring for the birth of he and his first wife's second child. She soon realises his marriage is on the rocks. Ben falls...

Secrets of Royal Women contains page after page features the intimate and historically accurate details of some of history's most privileged women. Learn from the life stories of Empress Nagako, Queen Marie-Jos馥acute;, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, and many others. Each story will make...

Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I do not know in the whole country...

A Biography of Charles Lindbergh Armstrong MD., the son of U.S. Congressman from Missouri, O.K. Armstrong. This is Charles story of his upbringing, the Armstrong family history, his college years and his service in Vietnam as an Army Flight-Surgeon. It concludes with Charles battle...

The greatest generation will always be one of the most interesting times in American history. Why was this true? I had the privilege to be born in this period in beautiful historical Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I write this book as I saw it as...

From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her. Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in...

The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point...

"Penetrates the mystique and unravels the myth with the best Jackie biography ever."--Kitty Kelley, New York Times bestselling author of Jackie Oh! and Oprah: A Biography A brilliant biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, casting an era's biggest "star of life" in a new light...

 On the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, a royal bodyguard opens up about protecting and befriending the most famous woman in the world, bonding with the young princes--Harry and William--and the details of the night Diana died.This is the story of an ex-Royal...

Writer and oral historian Stephen Doster is the author of fiction and non-fiction, including two oral histories. He was born in Kingston-On-Thames, England and raised on St. Simons Island, Georgia. His literary works are focused on Georgia and the Georgia Coast. He holds degrees...

Carl's Story begins in the woods near St. Mihiel, France, almost a century ago on September 16, 1918. On that victorious day, when the US Army won its first battle in Europe and the war was just days from ending, Carl Willig, a doughboy...

Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964) served one term as President of the United States, from 1929, until 1933. He met his wife, Lou Henry, who was the only female Geology major at Stanford University, while he attended there. The pair delayed marriage so Lou could...

Many people love the American Southwest without truly understanding it. Ross Randall Calvin did and we are the richer for it. Calvin began his search as a pilgrim health-seeker, believing he had left the "known world" behind when he fled the East for New...

A testament to strength and determination, Maud Hawk Wright recounts the true story of a young American woman who is kidnapped from her ranch in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution by Villista raiders. The raiders force her and her husband off their land, leaving...

Jean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The following month, she and her family, along with over 3,600 other non-national civilians, were forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army and live...

William Pleasant Tyree is the most interesting of all the Tyrees. His accomplishments were extraordinary given the conditions he faced during the time he lived (1821-1874). He was many things during his life: pioneer, soldier, prospector, carpenter, innkeeper, businessman, farmer, politician, and the father...