Biography & Autobiography - Historical

A young Army Air Force recruit, a farm boy, a postal worker a young mother, a nurse and a goof off, use their unique skills to fight and win World War II. The war is fought at home and in the stormy Pacific skies.On...

*Includes pictures *Includes Serling's own quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes, a bibliography, and online resources for further reading *Includes a table of contents "There's nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." - Rod Serling A lot...

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America. A leader of the Republican and Progressive Parties, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who sought...

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each...

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each...

Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history...

Kathleen ffrench lived a storybook life, a life of opulence in a world on the brink of destruction. The headstrong child of an Irish diplomat and a Russian heiress, she grew up on her family's estates by the Volga, touring the capitals of Europe...

Roman life in the days of Cicero does not claim to be a life of Cicero or a history of the last days of the Roman Republic. Still less does it pretend to come into comparison with such a work as Bekker's Gallus, in...

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works is a classic biography of the great English philosopher by Herbert Spencer. John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers...

It is with great pleasure that I include in this Henry Hudson biography contemporary Hudson documents which have remained neglected for three centuries, and here are published for the first time. As I explain more fully elsewhere, their discovery is due to the painstaking...

Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior. This book reveals why public schools will not teach students about his life. Astounding discoveries (from the historian Dr. Rex Curry) are explained...

From Bull Run to Appomattox is a classic American Civil War history text by Luther W. Hopkins. We all believe in peace; universal peace, but when Civil War does come, and such a costly war as the one from which this story is taken,...

The Backwash of War is a classic World War One history text by Ellen N. La Motte. This war has been described as "Months of boredom, punctuated by moments of intense fright." The writer of these sketches has experienced many "months of boredom," in...

Author: Joyce Elaine Wiggin-RobbinsISBN-10: 1514476975ISBN-13: 9781514476970Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2016Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

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...

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...

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...

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his peripatetic life took him from...

My parents were Henryk Dembinski from Przysucha in central Poland and Maria born Goluchowska, whose family comes from eastern Polish territories, incorporated by the Ukraine as the result of WW II. The story begins before the Second World War in Lvov where I was...

Bestselling author G. Landy-Kordis brings the story of Bass Reeves to life in a fast-paced yet touching screenplay. Lots of action in this story of the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal appointed by Judge Isaac Parker to uphold the law in the untamed lawless...

FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT is the story of a German-Jewish family that endured years of unmitigated anguish during the catastrophe that was the Holocaust, first in what they thought was their homeland and then in Occupied Belgium. Even though it presents a coldly, brutally...

Captain John Browning was born about 1588 in England, and died about 1662. He allegedly married about the year 1614. Children were George and William in addition to accounts of other children including a Thomas. Sometime around the year 1621, he and his family...

This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Martha Maxwell, Spencer Baird, Asa Gray, John Torrey, Florence bailey, John Burroughs, and John Muir. From discovering new species to discovering...

A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC--Senator Mike Mansfield. Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum...

This engrossing book is an objective biography of Henry Ford, and it reveals the full story of the man who rarely revealed his true feelings, but who had did more than any other to change the landscape, character, and experience of twentieth-century America.Author: Carol...

In 1886, seventeen-year-old mother Emma Lewis left her parents' home in Indiana and took a train west to the Dakota Territory. She was to join her husband, James, and start her new life as a married woman. With a mixture of excitement and sadness,...

Lawrence Sullivan Ross, born in Iowa Territory, served Texas with a zeal unmatched by many of its native sons, devoting most of his life to the Lone Star State as Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate soldier, sheriff, constitution framer, state senator, governor, and president...

When young Kirvin Kade Legett arrived in Buffalo Gap, Texas, in 1879, his principal assets were a good horse and saddle and a license to practice law. When the Texas and Pacific Railroad, building west from Fort Worth, missed Buffalo Gap, the young attorney...

A clear and concise overview of the life and work of the immensely influential but little understood eighteenth-century mystic-scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. "Lachman identifies all the roles Swedenborg inhabited (spiritual thinker, psychic, scientist, inventor, statesman, traveler, and possibly even spy) and does an exceptionally good...

"A sheer testament to the power of the written word." (The New York Times) Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years...

Author: Herb Jr. McCollomISBN-10: 1585005657ISBN-13: 9781585005659Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d

Author: James Alfred DavidsonISBN-10: 1585002925ISBN-13: 9781585002924Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.05w x 0.73d

Author: Robert LeFevreISBN-10: 1584451440ISBN-13: 9781584451440Publisher: Pulpless.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 500Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.02w x 1.20d

Author: Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier AckleyISBN-10: 1583487336ISBN-13: 9781583487334Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.19h x 5.84w x 0.83d

'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...

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an...

Adventures of Alf Wilson-Large Print Edition In April of 1862 a group of men went on one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. The Adventures of Alf Wilson is the personal account of the raid by one of its members,...

Born into slavery in 1849, My Life in the South is Jacob Stroyer's engrossing first hand look at his life as a slave. After the Civil War, Stroyer moved to Salem, Massachusetts and became a minister. A much sought-after speaker, he was urged by...

The men who formed the United States came from all thirteen colonies. The real Josiah Bartlett did come from New Hampshire. John Adams was a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower, one of the reasons he was referred to as a "Son of...

Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe....

Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan V-2/2Union general, government official, and proponent of Yellowstone National Park--these were all part of the checkered career of Philip H. Sheridan. He earned the enmity of many Virginians for laying waste to the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War...

Recollections of a Private is an engrossing look at the life of the private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Warren Lee Goss chronicles not only his own experiences but those of his brother soldiers as well. Beginning with life as a raw...

This edition contains all 3 Volumes in one binding. The type was reset for a clean look and appearance.The object of this work is to deal with Mr. Lincoln individually and domestically: as lawyer, as citizen, as statesman. Special attention is given to the...

One will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as the devil incarnate, and most historical accounts portray...

A full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War: General J.E.B. Stuart.Author: Burke DavisISBN-10: 1580800750ISBN-13: 9781580800754Publisher: Burford BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2000Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.04w x 1.03d

A biography of Winnaretta Singer-Polignac, heiress to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who befriended and subsidized some of the most important musical and literary artists of the 20th Century, including Stravinsky, Proust, Ravel, Cocteau, and Colette. The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire...