Biography & Autobiography - Historical

"The Jewish people doesn't know what it owes to Shimon Peres." Said David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father. Indeed, the young Peres, operating in secrecy, was the builder of Israel's military might. In Israel's Independence war, he acquired weapons from all over the world, and...

A son comes of age in a fiercely political world "Thomas Fleming gives us an unforgettable story about an immigrant family--his family--as it struggles to find a place in the American century. He shares with us the dreams and heartaches of his parents, and,...

NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter Journey Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of G?ther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances-and found themselves falling in love...

THE TRUTH WILL ENDURE. IT MUST.But our history is in danger of being rewritten by the progressive left and the "woke" mob.In PROFILES IN FREEDOM: HEROES WHO SHAPED AMERICA , Carl Higbie shines a light on the real heros of American history.Ronald Reagan warned...

This remarkable work is the result of the author's four-month journey throughout Europe and the Middle East to meet "children of war" and talk with them. While there, she recorded the stories of children and families who had lost homes, relatives, and friends, and...

In Civil War Columbia, South Carolina, no women were more gossiped about than Amelia Feaster and her teenage daughter, Marie Boozer. The Philadelphia-born Feaster, a widow three times before her thirty-first birthday, aided the Union war effort from her home, while Marie became infamous...

This poignant, sad, and sometimes funny story of a liberal-minded young man tells how he was raised in a race-unconscious home, only to find himself serving in a conservative right-wing military. Pierre van Blommestein shares his incredible true story in Carry on Padre. The...

This story is unusual but true--as told by eyewitnesses or by those whose lives overlapped those eyewitnesses. The story is about the lives of four generations of ancestors beginning in old Europe and then coming to America in the 1800s with a wave of...

By the author of the prizewinning Amos Fortune, Free Man, this is a quietly but firmly dramatized biography of a woman whose activities pointedly revealed the rakishly eddying feelings about the Negroes before the Civil War. In 1833 Prudence Crandall had established herself as...

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...

Nikola Tesla wrote My Inventions as a six-part series appearing in the magazine Electrical Experimenter's February, March, April, May, June, and October 1919 issues. Tesla is The Man out of Time, the Man who could have built you a cell phone back in the...

Con Weber's Brighton spans seven generations. It is a story of the rise of the industrial age and growth of militarism in nineteenth century Germany, pioneer hardships on the southeast Michigan frontier, and the challenges of the Great Depression. The first century of a...

Frederick Douglass (c.1818 1895) was born into slavery but escaped in 1838, quickly becoming involved in the abolitionist movement. Following publication in 1845 of this autobiography he risked recognition and recapture by his owner, and so fled the United States. This reissue is of...

Have you ever wished you had more information about your family, where you all came from, and what life was like for your parents and grandparents while they were growing up? I know for sure I wish that Or, do you have a parent...

In the winter of 1849, Captain David Cook, master of the brig "Sarah", came upon the "Caleb Grimshaw", a packet ship with a passenger and crew complement of 457, on fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The gallant and courageous actions of...

Frustrated by the intelligence bureaucracy's inability to stop the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol withdraws from his activity, retiring to his safehouse in Mexico. O'Brien tries several times to bring him out of his seclusion, and it is finally a new political...

Master Spy Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol is asked by the President of the United States to run an intelligence program for the country. The target of the operation is the Soviet Union, and the results are better than expected: not only does the...

These stories begin with brief histories that bring the French Peltier and the Scottish Keillor families together. John was the fifth of the twelve children that Wilburn and Barbara Peltier raised on the flat salt grass of Southeast Texas after they married. The life...

Richard Stewart is one of those large numbers of fanatical early '60s rock-and-roll guitarists, who never received national attention and all its glory but, instead, came darn close regardless of the frequent and, on occasion, precarious roadblocks that he encountered, especially during the innocent...

From the author of the acclaimed biography of Harry Hopkins comes this first full-scale portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt's top military advisor, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. The president's personal chief of staff and chairman of the newly established Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral...

Former special agent and assistant director of the FBI, Ray Wannall, writes a comprehensive, insider's commentary regarding one of the most powerful, but enigmatic personalities of our time. Highly revealing and provocative, FOR THE RECORD sheds light on efforts to undermine Hoover's legacy and...

Author: Arthur L. PetersonISBN-10: 1669800849ISBN-13: 9781669800842Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2021Pages: 88Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Arthur L. PetersonISBN-10: 1669800830ISBN-13: 9781669800835Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2021Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

Join an adventure walking in the shoes of Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Many stepping stones along this journey are first-hand accounts of Abigail's correspondence before, during, and after the birth of her nation. Her forthright,...

In this updated and revised edition of Just Passing Through: A German American Family Saga, first published in 2011, the author tells the story of several generations of his unique but dysfunctional family spanning over a hundred years including the two world wars. Peter...

The Civil War saved the Union, but serious divisions and great animosity remained between north and south. Few Northerners had contact with soldiers who had fought against them. Not so George N. Bliss, a former captain in the first Rhode Island Cavalry. He befriended...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts"We have met the enemy and they are ours." - Oliver Hazard PerryAmericans had few things to celebrate during the Barbary Wars or the War of 1812, but one of them was the growing prestige of the U.S. Navy,...

Discover the remarkable life of Jefferson Davis...Jefferson Davis-was he a rebel for a bad cause, or just a greatly misunderstood man? Davis was certainly lambasted as the ultimate evil during the American Civil War since he was the leading statesman of the Southern Confederacy....

My name is John Richard Campbell. I've been called Rick all my life. Instead of Ruckus, I named this book Rickus. That was the name of my band, whenever I had one.For you, who choose to read this book, I hope you find it...

Maria Sharp was born Maria Zdenka Besan in Croatia in 1941, just after the Nazis had invaded Yugoslavia, and as a young child she witnessed "events that imprinted themselves upon my soul forever". At the age of nine she emigrated to the USA and...

*Includes pictures *Includes Beckwourth's quotes about his life *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Jim Beckwourth, who knew, said that though the Indian could never become a white man, the white man lapsed easily into an Indian." - Bernard DeVoto, The...

Large Format for easy reading. Historical biography of the French Civil War General and First Consul of the French Republic from the 19th Century writer and historian.Author: John S. C. AbbottISBN-10: 1544722672ISBN-13: 9781544722672Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2017Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.02h x...

Sonny Kaniho: A Profile in Hawaiian Courage chronicles Sonny's labor of aloha (love) to bring about change and reform within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL), an institution created by the US Congress in 1920 to return Hawaiians to the 'aina (land), 'aina...

Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama is the biography of James Williams. He was born in Virginia in 1805 and eventually escape to New York City.Author: James WilliamsISBN-10: 1542870410ISBN-13: 9781542870412Publisher:...

This is a true story about Stoney, an African American Groom of Horse Racing and his life as one of the most respected grooms. Stoney highlights " The Triple Crown Races" and what it takes to be a horse racing groom. It brings you...

Bears, volcanoes, earthquakes, fire, ice, shipwreck and tuberculosis were realities of life in coastal Alaska a century ago. Seward was two years old in 1905 when Louis and Fanny Pedersen stepped off the boat with four children and a tent -- their home for...

From Slavery to Wealth, the Life of Scott Bond is the biography of emancipated slave Scott Bond. Born in the 1850s, he went on to become incredibly successful, owning over 12,000 acres of land and other industrial interests.Author: Theo Bond, Dan RuddISBN-10: 1540765474ISBN-13: 9781540765475Publisher:...

Harriet Hubbard Ayer moved to New York City by 1883 and established Recamier Preparations, Inc., the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about women's health and beauty, she influenced several...

When the Civil War broke out, thousands of Kentuckians struggled to maintain the state's neutrality in deciding which side to support. Although Kentucky was a slaveholding state, most of the population did not wish to secede from the Union. More than 140,000 Kentucky solders...

Originally published in 1813, The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson is one of the classics of early biography. The author, Robert Southey, was appointed Poet Laureate of England in the same year he published this book. Still regarded as England's greatest naval hero, Vice...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic 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: Lycurgus A. WilsonISBN-10: 153775145XISBN-13: 9781537751450Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Elie Wiesel is one of modern history's most revered and accomplished Jewish writers - learn all about the life, writings, and politics of the man in this book by author, and revered biographer, Jacob Shapiro Sr.Author: Jacob Schapiro SrISBN-10: 1535262583ISBN-13: 9781535262583Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

This is the story of Tana Stern, of the Chan family, who as a young girl, almost a baby, is broken and abandoned in postwar Europe. It begins with a simple search for the mother who raised Tana during the war. Piece by piece,...

Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer 1847 is a classic American history autobiography by John Young. "Words are the soul's ambassadors who go Abroad, upon her errands to and fro, They are the chief expounders of the mind, And correspondence kept 'twixt all...

These 22 short stories span over a century in the turbulent lives of Helena and her family, forming a mosaic that traces the lives of four generations. The family saga includes the journey of Helena's mother from Galicia to Prague where she meets her...

This is a story of the Wards, Irish immigrants initially settling in Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia. It follows nine generations over two-hundred-fifty years, beginning with the first generation that arrived in Philadelphia around 1730. Notable representatives include: -a citizen of colonial Virginia who...

Rev. Dr. A. Nevile Davidson (1899-1976), minister of Glasgow Cathedral for over thirty years, was one of the most distinguished Scottish churchmen of the twentieth century. A living embodiment of the idea of ""a broad churchman,"" he was both a representative of the high...

As the Supreme Allied Commander in the fight against the Nazis, General Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most important leaders of the last century. His position as a five-star general was crucial in achieving a positive outcome in World War II. Today, he...

This work gives readers a glimpse into the mind, heart, and vision of Pope John Paul II regarding the present and future life and role of laity in the Church, and his thoughts and reflections inspire us all in our daily living of the...

This book spans a period of 211 years - beginning in 1803 on a small farm in northern Sweden and ending in Sarasota, Florida in 2014. The story involves a farmer, a shoemaker, an industrialist and several businessmen who were very much involved in...