Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Hardship and tragedy plagued the people of nineteenth-century Ireland. Famine, religious persecution, and bigotry forced millions to emigrate while others were exiled on prison ships to Australia for petty crimes. Families were torn apart and lives forever altered. Fourth-generation Irish American John F. Welsh...

Patrick: The Irish Immigrant is the story of a determined Irish lad who dreamed of a better life of opportunities in America. By the age of seventeen, Patrick J. O'Shea had saved enough money to buy passage to the United States. Upon his arrival...

"A fabulous, gripping story, with a nice dose of suspense at the end of each chapter, making you want to turn the page." -Arnold Ismach, journalism dean, University of Oregon "I read Angels in the Forest with great interest and admiration.... a terrific book....

A fifth generation farmer, Wayne Cryts finished harvesting his crop in the fall of 1980 and hauled more than 32,000 bushels of soybeans to a nearby grain-storage facility. That decision changed his life forever. A few months later, the owners of the Ristine Grain...

'This compelling memoir of a German girl's bitter, frightening life reveals the horrors visited upon an average family caught between two of the cruelest dictators in history.. The small, poignant touches are riveting." -Kirkus Discoveries I think about what I want and what makes...

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist (and slightly pro-German)...

For two decades Sympson thought little of his tour of duty as a Marine artillery officer in Vietnam. But recovering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer probably caused by exposure in Vietnam to Agent Orange, he saw a thread running through his later life and...

With skill, sensitivity, and spirit, Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening tells the story of Eycke Strickland's unusual childhood in the Third Reich. In beautiful prose, the author relates fascinating memories of a large, loving, and unconventional family in pre-war Germany and in war-time...

As a Jewish pre-teen in Germany in 1942, Helga Hoflich suffered the unspeakable horrors of the concentration camps during the holocaust while her father and most of her family were exterminated. In 1945, she and her mother who survived were freed by the Russians,...

Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hall Pulliam was a farm girl with a solid pioneer heritage. Her maternal grandparents settled on the western frontier of Missouri during the early 1800s, her father died as a "Forty-Niner" in California, and several of his family emigrated to the...

Born on New York City's streets to a prostitute, Jeff Goss spent his first six years in an orphanage. Orphanage matrons and peers mistreated him because of his physical ugliness. He decided to make it on his own, and ran away at age six....

A biography of one of the world's great naturalists, with details of his explorations on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's hidden sexual life, the world of Victorian science and gay sexuality, and the struggles of a great thinker to survive in...

A fifth generation farmer, Wayne Cryts finished harvesting his crop in the fall of 1980 and hauled more than 32,000 bushels of soybeans to a nearby grain-storage facility. That decision changed his life forever. A few months later, the owners of the Ristine Grain...

Raised Italian-American remembers the history, stories, traditions, and values of growing up in an Italian neighborhood. One of my fondest memories as a child was to take a ride and view the beautiful nativity scenes that were erected throughout the neighborhood each Christmas. The...

My Nine Lives is the colorful life story of Roy Sannella--a survivor of the second attack on Pearl Harbor, several natural disasters, encounters with gangsters, and other escapades that arose during his forty-seven moves around the world. Nicknamed "Scarface" and "Capone" by grade-school classmates...

The period up to the Cold War of the late twentieth century was a time of great social, economic, political, and religious changes. New discoveries in medicine eliminated epidemics and increased life expectancy. Inventions such as the automobile, telephone, radio, television, airplanes and rocketry...

Author: Samuel L. TennenbaumISBN-10: 0595193994ISBN-13: 9780595193998Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.38w x 0.76d

Author: William Douglas LansfordISBN-10: 0595156576ISBN-13: 9780595156573Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.26w x 0.78d

Covers the life and career of the U.S. Army five-star general from his early life in various military outposts to a career in two World Wars.Author: Norman H. FinkelsteinISBN-10: 0595152805ISBN-13: 9780595152803Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.38d

Author: Lucy KavalerISBN-10: 0595095674ISBN-13: 9780595095674Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.00w x 0.97d

Author: Dylan WestonISBN-10: 0595091806ISBN-13: 9780595091805Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.26w x 0.36d

Author: Marvin A. NottinghamISBN-10: 0595090249ISBN-13: 9780595090242Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.98w x 0.39d

Author: Arthur D. KahnISBN-10: 0595089216ISBN-13: 9780595089215Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.05w x 1.34d

Author: Ira BlanchardISBN-10: 0595012000ISBN-13: 9780595012008Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.02w x 0.47d

Jimmy Bruno was an ordinary man that lived an extraordinary life. All Roads Lead to Chicago has been under construction for nearly 100 years. From the actual time the events were unfolding in Jimmy's life to the final edit of the book. His start...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Midori Shimoda would have been the last person to have described his life as anything other than ordinary. Yet, how do you describe as ordinary a life that included: A three-week long, trans-Pacific, ocean crossing without family or friends at the age of nine...

Born in La Paz in 1792, Andr s de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and 1839 he created the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. The epitome of...

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader. In the first major study of his foreign policy role in...

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Alexander the Great famously brought the mighty Persian Empire's two-hundred year rule to an end, but the figure behind this phenomenon...

General Suharto is synonymous with modern Indonesia. He became President amidst extreme social upheaval and mass violence in 1966 and retained his position until 1998. In this book R.E. Elson provides insights into a man who exerted extraordinary power and influence, presented himself as...

Franz Schubert's tragically short life was lived in one of Europe's most richly musical cities: a Vienna that worshipped Beethoven and where Rossini and Paganini drew crowds. Christopher Gibbs considers how and what Schubert composed, taking a fresh look at this misunderstood composer, particularly...

Maximilien Robespierre is one of the greatest figures of European history but is at the same time one of the most reviled and revered. The essays in this volume seek to explain these contradictory views of Robespierre. They provide a balanced and up-to-date account...

First published in 1993, this biography, first published in 1993, represents a comprehensive, accessible account of the great eighteenth-century French chemist and administrator, Antoine Lavoisier. Historians of science know Lavoisier as a founder of modern chemistry. Students of the French Revolution know him as...

This is a biography of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who reigned from 1347 to 1354, and subsequently spent thirty years as a monk. John Cantacuzene was unique in that he wrote his own memoirs and in his varied talents...

In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses...

Professor Shackleton Bailey is renowned for his major scholarly editions of Cicero's letters already published by Cambridge University Press. This selection from the complete correspondence is designed specifically for students at universities and in the upper forms at schools, and offers them a representative...

From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted, imperturbable 'architect of victory'....

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell and Einstein as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Together the lectures in this volume, originally presented on the occasion of the dedication ceremony...

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family--"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese--reveal the human side of...

In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken...

Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in...

In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers-Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather-in order...

The name Charles Stewart Mott is today most widely recognizable when used in connection with the word Foundation. Established by the General Motors mogul in 1926, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has made grants in excess of $3 billion over the past nine decades,...

Advance Praise for The Unexpected George Washington ""This is a biography that unquestionably lives up to its title. Readers will discover numerous, often touching traits that they never knew about the Father of the Country. Harlow Unger has written a one-of-a-kind book that will...

The untold story of Lane Kirkland, labor leader and advocate for the American worker ""This book tells the story of one of the true heroes of the struggle for freedom from totalitarianism. Through the skillful use of the power he exercised as the leader...

"Extraordinarily readable." --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil...