Biography & Autobiography - Historical

The twists and turns that my life took. How I survived all the toils and the lessons I learnt doing so.. I was thrown plenty curve balls. I dwelt with each one and I came out stronger and wiser after each bout. I hope...

Hazlett was a lieutenant in John Brown's provisional army. He was introduced to Brown when he was fighting in the Border Wars with another American rebel, James Montgomery. Hazlett proved himself a cool, even-handed soldier, not easily frightened or thwarted, and he was an...

The strong Irish-Scottish roots enthralled into the Maughon and Norton family has withstood decades. The families toiled throughout the formation of our great nation, the settling of our communities, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam and up...

This is the true tale of a German Lawyer and former memeber of Hitler's army who becomes an American lawyer and is drafted into the U.S. Army. Subjected to interrogations and posted to units where the army can keep him away from anything important,...

Author: Thomas Lamar CoughlinISBN-10: 0738824100ISBN-13: 9780738824109Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.60w x 0.50d

Author: Sam CohenISBN-10: 0738822302ISBN-13: 9780738822303Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 472Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.57w x 1.20d

Inspiring words from John Wesley, the founder of MethodismPublished in cooperation of The Foundation for Evangelism, The Quotable Mr. Wesley, Updated Edition is a treasure trove of wisdom taken from John Wesley's journals, notes, letters, and sermons on topics as: Communion, evangelism, grace, perfection,...

The story of Captain John Valley Young personifies the body of rugged Union Army volunteers from West Virginia during the Civil War: highly resilient, stubbornly independent, and fiercely patriotic. Using Captain Young's wartime letters to his wife, Paulina Franklin Young, and his daughters, Sarah...

How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid-eighteenth-century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo-Irish-Acadian army officer, treating in...

This is the story of Frank Lumpkin, son of sharecroppers who moved from Georgia to the orange groves of Florida. He became a professional boxer, construction worker, merchant seaman, steel worker and a leader of the Communist Party, USA. When Chicago's Wisconsin Steel closed...

This book expresses support for the Catholic sainthood of Blessed Karl, Austria's last emperor, while presenting a firm stance against monarchy and Christian fundamentalism.Contrary to some advocates for Karl's cause, the author is a believer in democracy and a critic of the House of...

Ducks Across the Moon is a personal glimpse into the daily lives and times of WWII-era rural Kansas. Ken Ohm spent his early elementary school years with his family as they scraped out a living on an eighty acre farm in the Flint Hills....

An account by the American missionary, Justin Perkins, of his years living among the Christians of Persia, with a new Introduction by John Ameer, setting the activities and experiences of the American missionaries in Persia in their historical context.Author: Justin PerkinsISBN-10: 1463239211ISBN-13: 9781463239213Publisher: Gorgias...

PROSPER ISHIMWE was an eight-year-old child when genocide and civil war devastated his Rwandan homeland. His story of survival and healing offers both a moving tribute to his fellow Rwandans and a stirring reflection on identity and self-awareness. Ishimwe's drive to share his story...

Karen Adams' dream became possible the day the RCMP finally included women in what was then, an unashamed boy's club. When Karen joined the very first group of female RCMP recruits at age 22, she never anticipated the indelible mark this would leave on...

This is the story of the journey of a young man from a small, rural town that takes him from Lewis Run, PA to the battlefields of Europe during World War II. His story tells us what it was really like in the field...

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first time ever, provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays,...

"Family Stories . . . and How I Found Mine" is actually several books rolled into one. At its simplest, it conveys the history of author J. Michael Cleverley's family from the early Middle Ages, through its establishment in colonial New England, and later...

Originally published in 1887, then revised in 1898, this biography of Patrick Henry is being reprinted to re-introduce this staunch defender of liberty and state's rights to a new generation of Americans -indeed a generation of Americans much in need of hearing the echo...

Just Another Square Dance Caller is more than a biography filled with the remembrances and stories of a 90-year-old man with 64 years' experience in the world of square dance. It's a unique and colorful retelling of the life and times of Marshall "Flip"...

Marshall Flippo is the most recognized caller's name in the square dance world internationally. Marshall Doyle Flippo was born September 2, 1927 in Tuscola, Texas to Roy and Gus Flippo. He had two sisters; Helen and Onita. Flip (or Flippo is what we called...

Ninety-year-old Jake Mosby is the grandson of slaves, a lifelong native of Prairie County, Arkansas, and one of the only African Americans selected as Arkansas' Farmer of the Year. Jake has lived in the east Arkansas delta region all his life and has endless...

Excerpt: Some account of what befell Father (Saint) Vincent de Paul, Religious of La Trappe, with observations made by him when in America, where he has spent about ten years, with the permission of his Superior, in obedience to whose orders he writes the...

A young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk his own life to save the children?An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of...

Dr. Thaddeus L. Kostrubala, an anthropologist, doctor and psychiatrist (retired) from Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a pioneer in the field of running therapy and founder of the related therapy approach known as Paleoanalysis. In particular, he is known for his work "The Joy...

SEMMELWEIS by best-selling author is the Life and Work of pioneering physician Ignaz P. Semmelweis, who discovered the causes and means of prevention of the pandemic of his day, childbed fever. Called the "Father of Antisepsis," he was largely ignored, placed in an asylum...

There are so many times we meet people or bump into people on the street or various places and we don't think anything of it. These people may not look different or even stand out to us in their physical appearance. How we perceive...

As a U.S. combat advisor, Lieutenant Robert Amon's Vietnam War experiences were immeasurably different than those of most conventional U.S. combatants in that war. He and his five-man team of Americans, living on their own in remote villages in the Mekong Delta, fought side-by-side...

Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. In...

W.B. Yeats's Celtic Enochian Chess A black imitation-leather, gold unpublished notebook dated December 1898, shows us the Yeats-Gonne-Pollexfen team at work. Virginia Moore transcribes in 1954 this record of these three Celtic Twilight magicians exploring the four fabled "Cities," of Falias, Murius, Findias, and...

If ancestry contributes to the character of a man, one can well understand the charisma, the fortitude, and the adventurous spirit of President Theodore Roosevelt. Built upon five American generations of his maternal Scots bloodline--the Bullochs of Georgia--Theodore could have been no less. This...

A Bowl of Cherries is a vivid, personal account of Canada's early-twentieth-century history, spanning from the late 1800s, when Jules Legal's grandparents built a homestead in the harsh scrublands of Southeastern Manitoba, to the author's own upbringing during the Great Depression, the war years,...

The history of the Holocaust is in many ways the story of individuals. Expanding on Rosen's acclaimed Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust series, these new biographies explore key figures: those who perpetrated the nightmare of the Holocaust, those who suffered during it, and those...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of ancient accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingIn the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle famously wrote that history is "the biography of great men," popularizing the "Great Man" theory that the course of history is shaped by a select...

Gale Cooper's huge Cracking the Billy the Kid Imposter Hoax of Brushy Bill Roberts, in hardcover and paperback, definitively demolishes that 70 year hoax.Once "Brushy Bill" Roberts had united with his hoaxing authors," William V. Morrison, and C.L. Sonnichsen, they created one of the...

Gale Cooper's huge Cracking the Billy the Kid Imposter Hoax of Brushy Bill Roberts, in hardcover and paperback, definitively demolishes that 70 year hoax.Once "Brushy Bill" Roberts had united with his hoaxing authors," William V. Morrison, and C.L. Sonnichsen, they created one of the...

"El campeador means in Spanish something more special than 'champion'... A campeador was a man who had fought and beaten the select fighting-man of the opposite side in the presence of the two armies." --Henry Edward Watts in The Story of El CidThe Story...

Following both World War I and II, about 6,500 Franco-American marriages took place between French mademoiselles and American soldiers, be they "doughboys" or GI's. These women, who came from different parts of France and diverse background, would later cross the Atlantic to join husbands,...

Daniel Boone was an Indian fighter, an explorer, a politician and a real American hero. He was a soldier of the American Revolution and an adopted Shawnee. He discovered the Cumberland Gap and opened the Wilderness Road for settlement into the present state of...

Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939, Vol. 1: San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, and proved to be one of the most popular and progressive President's in history. This book aims to serve as a biography of Roosevelt, documenting his journey in politics, and painting a...

A magnificent tale of family rivalry and intrigue set against Henry VIII's court. The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic drama of the Tudor era. The Boleyns had long been an influential English family. Sir Edward Boleyn had been...

Ronald Reagan's story reads like a Hollywood script complete with a small-town boyhood, movie stardom, financial success, and unmatched political popularity. This book tells Reagan's true-life tale in an engaging and easily accessible manner. The trajectory of his life was remarkable: from Midwestern schoolboy,...

A thorough and effectively executed study, this biography will appeal to anyone interested in Stonewall Jackson and the military history of the Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was one of the greatest generals of the Civil War and remains an iconic figure of...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT This book aims to serve as a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, and details the incredible life he lived, as well as the large impact he had on the United States of America. Throughout this book, you will learn about Roosevelt's childhood, his...

They had it all, but it was taken from them. During the early 1900s, Cecil L. Snyder, a businessman, a husband, and a father, who was dedicated to his country, endured endless political injustices from governmental bodies, whose intentions were to bring him down....

As a teenager, Ron Reynolds trekked across the United States and overseas in quest of adventure. Stints as carnival worker, ranch hand, cabana boy, and lifeguard to a deckhand on the China seas could not quench his thirst for excitement until the nineteen-year-old Buffalo,...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James GarfieldHe...

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James GarfieldHe...

This classic political biography is among the most thorough and fascinating biographies of the great American president Abraham Lincoln. In addition to the expected biographical content, this book is comprised of letters from Lincoln and his associates that provide intimate insights to the final...