Biography & Autobiography - Historical

*Includes picturesIncludes a bibliography for further reading "I hope, when my time comes, that I die decently in bed. I don't want to be murdered beside the garbage cans in some Chicago alley." - Bugs MoranSprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club....

The unbelievable true story of Ulrich Schnaft-A German Nazi soldier, An Israeli army officer, An Arabic spy, Yes, it is as crazy as it sounds.I invite you to to read this never before told story that will make your jaw drAuthor: Itai StiklaroISBN-10: 1795250976ISBN-13:...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will. If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're...

Mr.Cheeseman, my teacher, said that I had no aptitude for school. I agreed with him.An unintended consequence of Hitler's European war strategy was that there was little notice taken of the education of a young Calverton boy, troublesome at school but useful in the...

There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory...

Professor Carroll Quigley was a top American historian and theorist on the evolution of civilizations. He believed that knowledge cannot be divided into parts, that the world can be viewed only as an interlocking, complex system. This view complemented his life: he had reveled...

"Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment, so much that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am,...

Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, was born in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the First World War, he served overseas as a scout and sniper and became Canada's most decorated Indigenous soldier. After the war, Pegahmagabow...

A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for...

The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the "Final Solution" into effect with deliberate speed. Soros, a Jewish lawyer in Budapest, secured fake Christian identities for...

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life. Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country...

"We need these stories. We need to read them to our children and our grandchildren." --Dennis Prager "We learn by stories, and this powerful, well-written book gives us forty superb ones. They couldn't be more timely in an age that is experiencing too much...

Apartheid isn't over--so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born...

Harriet Hubbard Ayer moved to New York City by 1883 and established Recamier Preparations, Inc., the earliest cosmetic company owned and operated by a woman. First with her creams and balms and then with her words about women's health and beauty, she influenced several...

Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of America's most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840...

In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson...

From the Author: ""What I've aimed for... in this book is neither academic analysis nor a history of the Worker movement per se. Rather, my interest has been a theological exploration of the Catholic Worker vision in all its rich and resonating breadth. The...

Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well-known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life. Covering his early years to his time as a student at Bowdoin, the primary emphasis in on Chamberlain's military career and...

The sole surviving diary of a Holocaust resistance fighter, written from inside the Nazi concentration camps.Author: Hanna Lavy-HassISBN-10: 1608464601ISBN-13: 9781608464609Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d

When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war, the...

In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians-arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939-were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The...

Thomas F. Walsh tells the story of one of the West's wealthiest mining magnates - an Irish American prospector and lifelong philanthropist who struck it rich in Ouray County, Colorado. In the first complete biography of Thomas Walsh, John Stewart recounts the tycoon's life...

Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France's aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country's monarchy. The great material...

In 1835 Lucy Larcon went to work in the Mills in Massachusetts. Lucy spent ten years working in the mills and during that time she wrote poems and songs about mill life. Her works brought attention to the conditions the mill workers endured. This...

"Strongly recommended a deftly written memoir that will hold the reader's rapt attention from beginning to end." -Midwest Book Review "Her ability to authentically capture the bewilderment and pain of dislocation through a child's eyes including the disharmony in her immediate family makes for...

Charles Darwin called him "the greatest traveling scientist who ever lived." Thomas Jefferson considered him "the most important scientist whom I have met." He was German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), and when he died, the entire Western world mourned the loss...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was an anarchist, a feminist, a pacifist, a communist, a unionist, and a proponent of birth control and free love. Her extreme notions made her...

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. As a political philosopher,...

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade...

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade...

James Weldon Johnson's landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations. The protagonist, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion, known only as an ex-colored man, makes a choice between his heritage and the art that he loves and...

Author: Jacob AbbottISBN-10: 1604506814ISBN-13: 9781604506815Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2009Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d

An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing Of The Revised Edition With Selections From His Correspondence And Writings To Include The Cambridge Essays.Author: Lewis Campbell, William GarnettISBN-10: 1603861629ISBN-13: 9781603861625Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2008Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.90d

Author: Noah BrooksISBN-10: 160206444XISBN-13: 9781602064447Publisher: Cosimo ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Biography of a Sea Captain's Life, Written by Himself is the annotated diary of W.C. Flanders (1811-1891) relating the events and adventures of his life at sea. A valuable resource for a neglected period of maritime history.Author: W. C. FlandersISBN-10: 1601458770ISBN-13: 9781601458773Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Winston Churchill - Biography of a Nobel Statesmen is a biography of Winston Churchill, a British politician and wartime prime minister who led his country to victory in World War Two. Among his notable achievements, Churchill was a master statesman and strategist, an officer...

Lawrence of Arabia - Biography of T. E. Lawrence is a biography of T. E. Lawrence, was was a renowned British soldier known for his role a a liaison during the Arab revolt in the early 20th century. Lawrence became a object of fascination...

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is best known as the author of the Decameron, for which he created a lieta brigata of young men and women narrating a series of popular stories in Italian. Yet during his lifetime and long afterward Boccaccio was celebrated as a...

Includes 430 letters--many published for the first time--to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique...

?Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.?--William Faulkner A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as...

"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication....

The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians, and literary critics. Grant portrayed himself in the persona of the honorable Western hero, whose strength lies in his honesty and straightforwardness. He candidly depicted his battles against both the Confederates and internal...

Joel Barlow was the early Republic's most tenacious diplomat, a cheerful volunteer for difficult missions. His hard-won treaties with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli ended, at least briefly, the attacks of Barbary pirates on American shipping in the Mediterranean. And on the eve of the...

With the words "This is London," Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not avoid a confrontation with...

Author: J. P. NettlISBN-10: 1597405205ISBN-13: 9781597405201Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 488Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d

This volume pertains principally to the history of Muhlenberg County from its beginning in 1798 to the year 1875, but is extended briefly in some practical aspects to 1910. Mr. Rothert relied heavily on numerous interviews with every "oldest citizen" in the area, and...

This book, originally published without index, now contains a New All-Name Index, making it much easier for the reader to locate ancestors or persons of interest. Mr. Hale, in detailing his objective in undertaking this work, writes, "In connection with, and following these histories...

Robert Morris' tombstone states that he was "The Financier"; officially, however, he was Superintendent of Finance. Whatever his title, Robert Morris played an integral role in financing the American Revolution, and Yale Professor William G. Sumner examines Morris' life and actions to enhance our...

If you want to know where the brothers Paul and George Soros got their business skills, look no further than this little adventure story told by their father. In simple, understated style, Tivadar Soros tells how he and his companions broke out of their...