Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Among those who visit 'Akk , some have made great forward strides. Lightless candles, they were set alight; withered, they began to bloom; dead, they were recalled to life and went home with tidings of great joy. 'Abdu'l-Bah . . .each pilgrim brings back...

The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew MarrBritain changed fundamentally during the Queen's long, distinguished reign....

Adriana is a young woman in her twenties navigating her way through the counterculture during the late sixties and early seventies. It's a virtual roller-coaster ride of events and emotions that often blur the lines between her present life and her past. At the...

Cut From The Wilderness is about survival. It is filled with adventure, hardships, lonesomeness, poverty, and adaptation. The story reveals the author's strength of character-and acceptance of what life dealt. Through the eyes of a young girl, Cut From The Wilderness gives a glimpse...

On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. In order to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS - the authors of such atrocities -...

Years ago I inherited several boxes of family documents and photographs that my grandfather Vassilij (William) Yakovyevich Ostrogorsky collected during the last century. These documents passed down through the hands of my aunt Vera Vassilyevna and father Vassilij Vassilyevich, my mother Jadvyga Ivanuaskas, and...

My memoirs tell of the experiences and the events that were encountered throughout my life. My short stories are tales, based from my own experiences. My historical booklets are compiled from the research, that I have done for the past thirty years. Over all,...

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." -Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, a women's rights weekly (1868) The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries-A Story of the...

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." -Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, a women's rights weekly (1868) The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries-A Story of the...

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...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingIt would be impossible to overstate the accomplishments and legacy of a man history has dubbed the "Father of Modern Science". In his lifetime, Galileo straddled the epochs of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, and it was...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. A LARGE PRINT EDITION includes text at a size much larger than a typical paperback. The biggest difference in a LARGE PRINT BOOK is the size of the text, which is much larger than a standard print edition. This larger text...

SECOND EDITION Revised 2022A history of colonial Australia, not of the famous and heroic, but of the small people, the anonymous people who were the heartbeat of a growing nation In this first book of his social history series, the author sets out on...

After World War II and the Communist Revolution in China, Mark's father, H. Thomas Luke, a graduate of Yenching University in Beijing, escaped with his wife Deanna, daughter Shelley, and son Hugo to Hong Kong where he taught English and wrote newspaper articles. The...

There is no way to prepare for the loss of your Mother. The Author has grieved the loss of her Mother for over 26 years. Conversations with Mom, take the reader on a historical and spiritual journey detailing the incredible bond that lasted beyond...

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This book 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 format as...

FANCY A JOB AS AN APPRENTICE COMPOSITOR*?(*a snotty-nosed subclass of the primitive species Homo erectus) A tongue-in-cheek autobiography of an apprentice compositor learning his trade in London's Old Covent Garden during the so-called swinging 'Sixties, when youth culture was, for the first time, finding...

Two and One-Half years in Hell on Earth is about a family that struggles to survive in the deep south during America "Jim Crow" history. Willie L. Pounds is a preacher and pastor who chronicles a brief history of his life while living on...

Discover the life of John Wilkes Booth...By the age of 26, John Wilkes Booth had achieved success on the stage. He had rugged good looks and the fame he craved. Yet that wasn't enough for the fanatical actor. On April 14, 1865, just a...

Fresh out of high school, Ken served his part in the military. Afterwards, with his whole life ahead of him, he first owned a bakery. He felt he needed more for his life. Police officers frequented his business, and he became their friend. Inspired...

At long last, the story of how a pioneering family settledin Australia has come into print. From Britain in the late1700s, with travels from India and to the United Statesand Mexico, running through in Australia until mid-1914, and branching out up to the 1960s,...

In February 1959, nine hikers, led by Igor Dyatlov, died in mysterious circumstances on the slopes of the Ural Mountains. Rescuers found their bodies hundreds of metres from the campsite. The tent had been slashed from the inside and still contained their clothes and...

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an...

Bronka Schneider and her husband, Joseph, were two of the thirty thousand Austrian Jews admitted as refugees to Great Britain between March 1938 and 2 September 1939. It was not until 1960, however, that Schneider wrote her memoir about the year she spent as...

Imagine discovering the locked diary of a long-ago prominent official who recorded in it his unvarnished stories of behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the most famous people of his generation: world leaders, explorers, iconic movie and sport stars-even two canonized saints. How badly would...

"This is an attempt by a son to record the life of his father... I have striven to be honest, but to be cold was beyond my wishes, as it was beyond my power. No one ever came within the sphere of my father's...

Benvenuto Cellini started getting onto trouble at a young age. By age sixteen, he had already been exiled from his hometown for six months due to a public assault of another citizen. As a man with endless talents--sculpting, drafting, writing, music, Cellini enjoyed dabbling...

Ralph De Coste was one of five children born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and times were challenging. His father was a WWI veteran and struggled as a binge drinker. His mother was a loving woman who tried to keep her siblings together. She...

Imagine discovering the locked diary of a long-ago prominent official who recorded in it his unvarnished stories of behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the most famous people of his generation: world leaders, explorers, iconic movie and sport stars-even two canonized saints. How badly would...

Jack Fritz's memoir-A Lifetime Adventure-is aptly titled. After reading it, you'll come away wondering how one man could have packed so much living into eight-plus decades.From growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan to living the majority of his life on the shores...

"Daughter of Laharna" provides a glimpse of family life in Laharna Hotel, Larne, which was Patricia's home for 24 years, and also details its history from 1833 - becoming the largest tour hotel in Ireland. Her father George A. Beattie was Resident Manager of...

Today the Schulenburg family looks back on a history of almost 800 years with 24 traceable generations. Throughout history, the family has produced and nurtured remarkable individuals - male and female - including generals, bishops, art collectors, patrons, activists, members of the resistance against...

"Emerson makes her come alive without contriving events or dialogue." The Book Report Aimed at young readers, Nellie Bly is the story of the groundbreaking investigative reporter who was born Elizabeth Cochran. As Nellie, she became famous for writing newspaper articles about controversial subjects...

Volume II of the Abney Family History Series, titled "Abney, Abner, Abna, Abnee" is the most complete, documented and factual account of the Abner Abney branch of the Abney Family from its Noble Roots in 11th century France, through England, and from the humble...

TRAILBLAZER Kamala Harris is one of the formidable America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for 2020 running mate election.This mind blowing epistle book tagged TRAILBLAZER KAMALA HARRIS BECOMING VICE PRESIDENT OF US: Discover Who kamala Harris Is And What She Stand...

One of the lessons I learned from seeking the origins of my family is to understand the role of education in raising a family's standard of living over generations and the need to seek perhaps far away new opportunities to develop one's skills and...

The Sultan's Spymaster tells the story of Peera Dewjee, an Ismaili merchant who crossed from India to Zanzibar as a boy. Later he became Sultan Barghash's barber and valet, where he became a confidant to the Sultan and a trusted advisor. Peera Dewjee acted...

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In Into the Eyes of Hungry, Leila Kulpas tells the story of her first seventeen years in an isolated mountain region of New South Wales, Australia, in the nineteen-forties and fifties. At three, her loneliness because of her hard-working parents has her attempting to...

The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force--the first contingent of Australian, British, and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942--who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and...

A wild biography of Daniel Boone that seeks to define and examine the figurehead of the American Man through a rich inspection of the complex and problematic context of American frontier history.Acclaimed Biographer and Emergent Conservationist Daniel Firth Griffith provides a wild and engaging...

In 1884, John Sparks brought a young black kid of about 19 years of age, to northeast Nevada, from Georgetown, Texas, to work for the Cattle empire of Sparks & Tinnin and later Sparks & Harrell. That black kid was Henry Harris.Within a few...

Before the beginning of time, God had a perfect plan for a very special man. He planned his parents, his time of birth, his childhood, his profession, his calling, his wife, his children, his ministry, his purpose for living. So much would transpire to...

This book is written as an intensely researched chronical highlighting the extraordinary African American woman, Annie Turnbo Pope Malone whose life and legacy has been eclipsed from many. Now is the time for the world to know more not only about her business endeavors...

After the failure of the Third Reich, many young people in central Europe were drawn to try to understand the inner nature of people. Among them were the young Bruno & Louise Huber, who met in 1952 in Stuttgart. They were immediately attracted and...

In his memoir, Renewal of Life, Henri Parens tells his story of how he was able to escape the Holocaust, leaving France as a young teenager while his mother was sent to Auschwitz. In America, he became an esteemed Psychiatrist, using his experiences to...

In The CrossRoads Diaries, you will embark on a year-in-the-life journey through the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam. You will journey alongside a combat sailor assigned to the unique Army-Navy battle-seeking unit known as the Mobile Riverine Force.This book is for: veterans, to let...

Itinerant journalist Ash Upson was a true "rolling stone" of the western frontier, first kicking around New York with Edgar Allen Poe and then tutoring the children of Mormon leader Brigham Young in Utah before making his way to New Mexico. There he befriended...

Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Written by a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature, it describes...