Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the 'opportunity' to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many...

Every County has its written history, but few are as accurately written as this one.Hugh J. Dobbs writes the history of Gage County, Nebraska, as authentic as possible. In this book, you'll find that Dobbs traces the history of Gage County all the way...

History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui, Father of Hawaiian Kings is a genealogical history by Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau La'anui Pratt. Written towards the end of Pratt's life, the book was intended as a tribute to her family's history and influence in Hawaii. Raised as a member of...

Author: Frank SmithISBN-10: 0879755881ISBN-13: 9780879755881Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1991Pages: 417Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.33w x 1.23d

Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine, created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics, and launched the Kennedy...

WINSTON CHURCHILLSir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 and passed away on January 24, 1965. He lived a variegated and full life and is remembered as one of the most remarkable men in history.From his invaluable leadership during World War...

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic's defeat "Very much a book for our times. Mason's retelling of the trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the French Revolution shows how...

Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders?Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young...

"It is brilliant, delicious, exquisitely civilized. I enjoyed as much as any the Gordon, which alone was quite new to me." -Bertrand Russell (1918) Eminent Victorians-Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (1918) is a collection of short biographies of four...

"David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life...

First published in 1885, "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" is the charming and engaging American history book for children by Edward Eggleston. Best known for his "Hoosier" series, which depicted the life of a school teacher in rural Indiana in the mid-1800s,...

He was evil incarnate, a main perpetrator of the Holocaust. Standing at six foot four inches and with deeply grotesque facial scars, he instilled fear as Hitler's top executioner of death. This thoroughly researched book takes you into the twisted psyche of one of...

Sir John T Davies was Lloyd George's Principal Private Secretary from 1912-22 and accompanied him on many trips both at home and abroad. After Lloyd George's resignation as Prime Minister Sir John became a director of the Suez Canal Company and he was also...

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. Included in this first volume are biographies and grave information for...

Read about strange disappearances, paranormal activities, cold murder cases and abnormal occurrences.Taken by the Mountain Devils A trained and experienced mountaineer leaves his friends and skis down to take photos of them as they pass through. The friends reach the mountain base to find...

He came from Ohio to bring much needed joy to the "Med City," Rochester, Minnesota, home of the world famous Mayo Clinic. But he was much more than a mere 1940's novelty store proprietor. He was a visionary. Shane introduced the first frozen diet...

"Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon...

This work focuses on the 1643 Warwick County church situated on Baker's Neck and on the genealogy of Matthew Jones, whose home was located close by. This second edition features a very much expanded view of the history of the Matthew Jones family of...

480 Codorus Street Book Two, Trials and Tribulations is the continued story of a young Negro girl who started her life in York, Pennsylvania back in nineteen hundred and forty-nine. It covers a period of time from 1973 - 1988. A time that would...

Abraham Lincoln: A Play, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print...

Jose Amesti emigrated from Spain to California via Mexico in the early 1800s arriving at Monterey in 1822. He married, acquired a major land holding in Santa Cruz County and made it financially successful. He became an influential figure in the Monterey government, built...

Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China's First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he...

In 1994, the genocide against the Tutsi was taking place in the small central African country Rwanda: Approximately 1 million Tutsi were killed within 100 days, mostly in a bestial way. Judence, a Tutsi 11 years old at the time, experienced this bloody massacre...

Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts--names, dates, family, important works--and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his...

Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber was one of the biggest stars of fin de si鐵le Paris, renowned as a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge. The subject of numerous paintings and photographs, she became an iconic figure...

The journalism and personal writings of the great American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass Launching the fourth series of The Frederick Douglass Papers, designed to introduce readers to the broadest range of Frederick Douglass's writing, this volume contains sixty-seven pieces by Douglass, including articles...

At the time of my upbringing there was not any President Barack Obama or his fabulous, intuitive wife whose healthy food programs brought her fame because it fought obesity in school children. No, but I am glad that I have arrived in spite of...

Through reviewing documents held for over a century in St. Petersburg Russia, DNA tests, the Facebook Lithuanian Genealogical Society, various genealogy websites and traveling to Lithuania, I have unraveled stories of my noble Lutkiewicz and Dowgwillo ancestors who were born in the Grand Duchy...

French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was fourteen years old when the Saint-Paul was shipwrecked near Rossel Island off New Guinea in 1858. After a gruelling voyage in a longboat across the Coral Sea to Cape York, he was rescued by an Aboriginal family and...

Pat Daly, MD, has written a series of articles which uphold Bernard Lonergan's method explored in his famous book Insight as a model that could be followed or applied in practicing medicine or promoting healthcare. Daly calls his effort a GEM Model for medicine....

This work is Gandhi's autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times.Author: Gandhi, Mohandas GandhiISBN-10: 1665183926ISBN-13: 9781665183925Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2009Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 6.14h x 6.61w x 0.71d

Long before the silver screen showed the face of Mary Pickford to millions of Americans, Annie Oakley, born as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses on August 13, 1860, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot game...

Kisah Hikayat Maryam Binti Imran Ibunda Nabi Isa AS Dan Burung Yang Tercipta Dari Tanah Liat Dalam Bahasa Inggris Bersumberkan Dari Kitab Suci Al-Quran Serta Al-Hadist.In the beginning I was clay then I became a bird by Allah's leave. From motionless clay to a...

Andrew Thompson is among the most inspiring men of early colonial Australia. Born in rural Scotland in 1773, Andrew was transported to New South Wales aged 18 on an uncertain stealing charge and became one of the richest and most successful men in colonial...

Harvey C. Kett-who everyone called Harve-was a key figure in the development of Southeastern Colorado. In 1886, at age three, he travelled by train with his parents, brother, and sister from Massachusetts to the barren, wide open plains of Colorado, a land that would...

Harvey C. Kett-who everyone called Harve-was a key figure in the development of Southeastern Colorado. In 1886, at age three, he travelled by train with his parents, brother, and sister from Massachusetts to the barren, wide open plains of Colorado, a land that would...

Author: Eric MetaxasISBN-10: 8200143066ISBN-13: 9798200143061Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2007Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Author: Allan W. EckertISBN-10: 8200097226ISBN-13: 9798200097227Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2011Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.63d

Author: Solomon NorthupISBN-10: 8200082164ISBN-13: 9798200082162Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2012Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.63d

Author: Tom C. McKenneyISBN-10: 1665295007ISBN-13: 9781665295000Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2016Format: MP3 CD

Author: Peter BurkeISBN-10: 1665197927ISBN-13: 9781665197922Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Author: Claire HarmanISBN-10: 166515134XISBN-13: 9781665151344Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 6.10h x 6.90w x 2.00d

Author: Yunte HuangISBN-10: 1665139374ISBN-13: 9781665139373Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2018Format: CD

Stories of the ProphetsIn this book, the stories of the prophets have been compiled from 'Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah' (The Beginning and the End) which is a great work of the famous Muslim exegete and historian Ibn Kathir and has a prominent place in the Islamic...

Exactly thirty-eight years after emigrating from Minsk, Belarus, the author returns with her mother. What had consisted of faint memories and others' stories becomes an intimate and eye-opening journey, as Marina forms her own personal connection with her family's past. A juxtaposition of how...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingIt's easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. It is hard to conceive a territory with such a long and ancient history was once young and troubled with constant...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingIn the waning years of the 19th century, Europe began to feel the effects of the Industrial Revolution. With the rise of mechanical technologies that upgraded productivity in terms of raw quantity, the Romantic era was rendered dispensable,...

Bravery and bad judgment. Boldness and blunders. Courage and cowardice. Heroism and heartache. Captain E. J. Smith, Commodore of the White Star Line and highly regarded as the "Millionaires Captain," was in charge of the world's largest and most luxurious ship. Entrusted with the...

There were three of us - Norman, Charlie, and I. Norman and Charlie had a touch of colored blood; their father was the famous pioneer Robert Baird, who had opened up China Camp when he and Christy Palmerston brought the first cattle over land.Of...

In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the...