Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This study offers a concise yet comprehensive account of Israel's history as told through the lives of nine of its leading citizens and founders. Each chapter chronicles a critical epoch in the Israeli saga and catalogs the impact made on that epoch by one...

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In this moving book, Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own words. Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many...

Based on true stories and documented facts from newspapers, census and stories of those who were there. The stories tell about the adventures of JT, John Todd McClammy and his friendship with Pancho Villa. JT's adventures entail, using an alias Mike Cassidy, a mentor...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Author: Gene Stratton-PorterISBN-10: 1434458733ISBN-13: 9781434458735Publisher: WLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2025Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Same Crime, Different TimeOregon gained statehood in 1859, but law and order had a harder time gaining a foothold in the West. Born and raised near Eugene, popular Lane County Sheriff W.W. Withers was shot while investigating a horse theft. The trial for his...

These diaries are of a parliamentarian devoted to the cause of parliamentary sovereignty. Sir Neil Marten was a soldier, spy, politician, husband, father, and grandfather. The First Brexiteer provides an incredible insight into the worlds of politics and Parliament during the tumultuous Heath administration...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Queen and Diana, a groundbreaking story of the riveting hot-and-cold relationship between the House of Windsor and Winston Churchill. From an early age, Winston Churchill was convinced that he was a man of destiny....

Andrew Mango's revealing portrait of Atat rk throws light on matters of great importance today-resurgent nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and the reality of democracy.Author: Andrew MangoISBN-10: 158567334XISBN-13: 9781585673346Publisher: Harry N. AbramsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2002Pages: 704Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.87d

New paperback edition - Explore the true story of a real-life Jane Austen heroine in this intimate portrait of a Regency family.Author: Peter James BowmanISBN-10: 1398122572ISBN-13: 9781398122574Publisher: Amberley PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 320Format: Paperback

The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail and insightful analysis. . . . Whenever...

"Insightful." --The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events." --Booklist The fascinating story of how a new law in 1854--the Kansas-Nebraska Act--unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and...

Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world. As Prime Minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953 he nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, led the nation's defiant attempt to run its oil industry independently during an economic...

The tumultuous period in English history that marked the end of the medieval era and the rise of the Tudors comes to stunning life in the final volume of the four-part series, filled with dramatic true stories chronicling the turbulent reigns of the last...

From 1941 to 1953, director John Huston and actor Humphrey Bogart made one classic film after another, from The Maltese Falcon to The African Queen. Here is the story of their close but combative friendship that produced some of the best movies ever made....

Stories Untold is a personal account of a family's history from their earliest days in the United States to the 2020s. It demonstrates the many connections between people, especially in the Old American South, and illustrates the stories passed down among generations. Through the...

Author: Arad ThomasISBN-13: 9798894160054Publisher: Folk Studio 451Language: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 614Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.24d

Author: David HimbaraISBN-10: 1777999847ISBN-13: 9781777999841Publisher: LivenbooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

The nineteenth-century Kentucky antislavery reformer Cassius Marcellus Clay is generally remembered as a knife-wielding rabble-rouser who both inspired and enraged his contemporaries. Clay brawled with opponents while stumping for state constitutional changes to curtail the slave trade. He famously deployed cannons to protect the...

Lady Dorothy 'Dolly' Mills was a petite figure with a big personality, born in 1889 into the political and literary Walpole family. When she married a clever but poor army captain, her father disinherited her. Defying her background and the expectations of her sex,...

This is a true story. About survival.A Breton soldier who fought at Hastings returns to his family's ancient Celtic roots in the West County. Nicholas St Aubyn follows his family's tenuous path over the next one thousand years, describing those they loved, the many...

Born in the slums of London's East End and raised as an orphan, Stanley Arthur Bond's life took an extraordinary turn during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moving to a farm in New Zealand opened doors to work and study as a journalist,...

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment "Nuanced, engaging and incisive."--Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal "Succinct, both scholarly and direct. . . . Wonderful art history."--Brian T. Allen, National...

Step into the pages of A True Holocaust Story from Auschwitz: A Survivor's Account of Loss, Hope, and Redemption, where history comes alive through the eyes of a courageous survivor. This powerful memoir takes you on an emotional journey through one of humanity's darkest...

Draws upon a wealth of previously unpublished material to deliver a dramatic and unrivaled experience of life, death and love in the Third Reich.The meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party cowed the masses into a sense of false utopia. During Hitler's...

A collection of biographical sketches of some of America's most famous explorers and pioneers. Cattermole provides engaging accounts of the lives of figures such as Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Lewis and Clark, making this an excellent resource for anyone interested in the history...

William Redfern is Australia's first medical graduate. His pioneering work in public health medicine is acknowledged with the William Redfern Oration given at the annual congress of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.Redfern was a surgeon's mate aboard HMS Standard during the 1797 Nore...

This fascinating historical account follows the fortunes of the Stapelton family of Yorkshire, England, from the 11th century to the present day. With a focus on the family's role in local and national politics, it is a must-read for anyone interested in the history...

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 illustrates how someone living in a small town can still have a lot to contribute to his community, his country, and even the world. The author, Bill Moll, has lived in the small town of Shannon, Illinois, with a population of eight...

Politics, architecture, landscapes, city designs, and infrastructure planning were the substance of the Earl of Mar's creative thinking before and after the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Condemned as a traitor after he led and lost the Jacobite Rising of 1715, Mar devoted his time...

Josip Broz Tito was a remarkable figure in the history of Communism, the Second World War, the Balkans and post-war Eastern Europe. He was the only European besides Lenin to lead a successful Communist revolution and became one of the most renowned Communist leaders...

" In a chance meeting in the 1980's, I had a discussion with Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust author, historian, and teacher. I told him that I had not been able to tell my story. He said that it was my obligation to speak...

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...

Author: Nigel CawthorneISBN-10: 1500722944ISBN-13: 9781500722944Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2014Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

When John Keats and Benjamin Robert Haydon were introduced in late 1816, the two men could hardly have been more different. Keats was a virtually unknown young apothecary who had a passion for poetry and a growing belief in his own abilities. Haydon was...

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.Author: William Spence RobertsonISBN-10: 1494089041ISBN-13: 9781494089047Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d

Sarah was born in 1911, behind the pale of settlement near the city of Kiev, Ukraine, to religious Jewish parents. She was the ninth child and youngest daughter. Before immigrating to America with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandson in 1979, Sarah spent sixty-eight...

The Life of Thomas Johnson is a biographical book that details the life of Thomas Johnson, a prominent figure in American history. Johnson was a member of the Continental Congress, the first governor of the state of Maryland, and an associate justice of the...

'On Wings of Hope - From Berlin to Caracas' is set in Europe, the Middle East, East Africa, and Venezuela. The book chronicles the adventures and misadventures of the family and follows the life of young daughter Ruthmarie. Her father, James Goerke, though Aryan,...

""Talleyrand The Man"" is a biography written by Bernard de Lacombe that explores the life and career of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, a prominent French statesman and diplomat who served under several different regimes throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book delves...

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Before the Revolution 1936 is a historical book written by Nesta H. Webster. The book explores the lives of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France before the French Revolution. The author provides a detailed account of...

Accompanies Through Broad Fields And Stories To Treasure.Author: Theodore Lester Harris, Mildred Creekmore, Margaret H. GreenmanISBN-10: 1258799197ISBN-13: 9781258799199Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2013Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.46d

Author: Brother ErnestISBN-10: 1258505037ISBN-13: 9781258505035Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2012Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d

Winged Moccasins: The Story of Sacajawea is a historical non-fiction book written by Frances Joyce Farnsworth. The book tells the story of Sacajawea, a young Shoshone woman who played a crucial role in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806. The book starts with...

Ashes, Cenere: A Sardinian Story is a novel written by Grazia Deledda and first published in 1908. The story is set in the island of Sardinia, Italy, during the late 19th century and revolves around the life of a young woman named Marianna Sirca....

A Shilling For My Thoughts is a collection of essays written by Robert Townsend Farquhar and published in 1890. The book is a reflection of Farquhar's thoughts on various topics such as literature, art, politics, and society. The essays are written in a conversational...

Skid Puffer: A Tale Of The Kankakee Swamp is a novel written by Francis F. French and first published in 1910. The story is set in the Kankakee Swamp, a vast and dangerous wetland in northern Indiana and Illinois, and follows the adventures of...

""We And Our Kinsfolk: Ephraim And Rebekah Waterman Briggs, Their Descendants And Ancestors, With A Few Collateral Briggs (1887)"" is a book written by Mary Balch Briggs. It is a genealogical account of the Briggs family, specifically focusing on Ephraim and Rebekah Waterman Briggs...