Biography & Autobiography - Historical

"The merest flicker of a smile touched his lips. He got up, took my arm and together we helped each other down the street.... This was my first jaunt with William Sydney Porter. Together, we struck out on a long road that lost itself,...

THE PHANTOM TAILOR The Prince of Wales, later George IV, is probably the most written-about of all British monarchs, and his excesses, his debts and the huge sums that he expended on his wardrobe are legendary. It is therefore strange that the man who...

Lady Dowling was capricious and captivating. Her life in nineteenth century Australia and India was filled with romance, riches and regret. As the child of John Blaxland, one of the first gentlemen settlers in the raw penal colony of New South Wales, Harriet absorbed...

'The Dutch in Wartime, Survivors Remember' is a series of books containing the wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to Canada and the USA, who lived through the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Book 8, 'The Hunger Winter' contains memories of the...

As a young boy living a sheltered life in a predominately Sephardic Jewish enclave in pre-WWII North Africa, Gino Narboni dreamed of a military life in service to his country.But life has a way of intruding . . . even in the dreams of...

Blinded by His Shadow is a journey through the life of Joseph T. Zimmerman, a man whose memory painfully clung to those who had lost him and a man who remained a mystery to family who had never known him. Through this book, published...

Historian Stephen Zimmer is a favorite among readers of Old West adventures. In this volume he shares over two dozen biographical sketches of people who have made the Cimarron Country great. Scores of rare historical photographs illustrate these pages and bring the stories to...

Dr. Jean Andrews' story of Leroy Colombo is an engrossing biographical tale about a deaf man succeeding during an era when disabled people were largely shunned. Colombo chose a life that allowed him to excel in saving lives as a lifeguard and winning swimming...

Reflections from a long life of activism, conflict and creativity, by veteran labor organizer and author Emanuel Fried, of Buffalo, New York. Recounted here are his modest family origins, marriage into an upper class family, dramatic encounters in his experiences in various factories and...

Narrative Non-fiction/InspirationHarriet Tubman 30 Lessons in Love, Leadership, and Legacy Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1821. She is known best as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and for freeing herself and three hundred others from slavery. When Harriet Tubman told her...

An entertaining memoir of a young man and his first summer job as a millworker in 1950s Oregon, USA.Author: Lisa Buie-Collard, Dudley CollardISBN-10: 0983647860ISBN-13: 9780983647867Publisher: D'Oc Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2015Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

My March to Liberation: A Jewish Boy's Story of Partizan Warfare is the compelling saga of a young Jewish boy coming of age during World War II. Paul Strassmann was fifteen when his family's life in Trenč?, Slovakia, was turned upside down by the...

In the summer of 1878, at 6 Princess Street in Amherst, Nova Scotia, a close-knit family's quiet life was turned upside down by the arrival of a malevolent, unseen force. The sinister presence wreaked havoc on the house's occupants, throwing objects large and small,...

Originally published in 1985, this revised edition with an updated Introduction, is being published by the University of Adelaide Press to commemorate the anniversary of Catherine Helen Spence's death on 3 April 1910.Catherine Helen Spence was a charismatic public speaker in the late nineteenth...

Secrets, Scandals and Betrayals. The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly entered into arranged marriages and took mistresses. Perdita Robinson, a famous actress, was enticed from the stage...

Author: Gerry FengeISBN-10: 0979170060ISBN-13: 9780979170065Publisher: Lorian PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2010Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Rising From the Holocaust is the astonishing real life story of an indomitable young Jewish girl who miraculously survives the horrors of Hitler's plot to destroy her people. Here is the quintessential account of survival while all around is being destroyed. Fanny's determination and...

Maurice Liber's 1906 biography of Rashi is one of the classics of the biography genre. It explores not only the life of one of the most important rabbis in Judaism, but also his impact on future generations. Translated by Adele Szold and originally published...

Orhei, Moldova (originally Orheyev, Bessarabia) has had a long history of a Jewish presence. Gravestones dating to the early 1700's have been found in the Jewish cemetery. This Memorial (Yizkor) book has numerous personal accounts of the Holocaust. However, it is much more than...

Trek is a poignant memoir of one American woman's struggle in Germany during World War II. Separated from her German husband, Mary Hunt Jentsch was forced to protect her two children, surviving nightly air raids, rooftop fires, hunger, and the invading Red Army. Including...

Major General Edward Braddock (1694-1755) A veteran of the Coldstream Guards and former governor of Gibraltar, Major General Edward Braddock was given command of a small expeditionary force sent to North America to remove the French from the continent. His immediate goal-to dislodge them...

Story of the first Judge, Judge William Gaslin in Western Nebraska, who adjudicated personalities who fought over the use of the land as cattlemen vs. farmers. The story is developed around actual news accountings of the day. The major trial of the story tells...

This first, comprehensive, book-length biography of Kansas City pioneer, Mattie Lykins Bingham, makes available two never-before published portraits, extensive use of rarely viewed excerpts from her scrapbook and her journal, "Recollections of Old Times in Kansas City," written between 1883-1890.Author: Rose Ann FindlenISBN-10: 0974136573ISBN-13:...

Sylvia Pankhurst, the former British Suffragette, devoted the last forty years of her life to Anti-Fascism and support for Ethiopia, for many centuries Africa's principal independent state. She responded to Mussolini's invasion of the country in 1935 by founding a weekly newspaper New Times...

REVISED, EXPANDED AND UPDATED (Special Edition). Letters from Alcatraz now includes a new chapter of author interviews with James "Whitey" Bulger, discussing his years on the Rock. Alcatraz Island was home to some of the nation's most notorious criminals including James "Whitey" Bulger, Al...

Dear Eagle: The Civil War Correspondence of Stephen H. Bogardus, Jr. to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, Foreword by Brian C. Pohanka and Edited by Joel Craig. "Neutral In Nothing" is the slogan at the Poughkeepsie Eagle in the 1860s. This collection of letters written...

"Surpassingly eloquent."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times"This is a remarkable book with extraordinary insights about the inner life of Abraham Lincoln. It will be read and studied for years to come, for Charles Strozier brings to every chapter the very qualities that Lincoln himself possessed--empathy,...

In You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe says, "Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen." C. D. Peterson's Homefront: A Memoir from WWII permits all of us to lean...

Tales from a Mountain City is a blend of history and memoir told by a young Vietnamese girl growing up during the last years of the war and the communist regime.This is a poignant account of the innocence of a child, the innocence of...

Some of the darkest episodes of twentieth-century European history come vividly to life in this fascinating memoir. George Pogany beautifully portrays a 1930s childhood in the Hungarian town of Oroshaza and the spread of anti-Semitism. He describes life in the town's Jewish ghetto, his...

The adventures of legendary University of Minnesota and Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Coach, Emil Iverson, an Ojibwa Shaman named Two Rivers, and their Raven Spirit Guide.Author: James Iverson, John IversonISBN-10: 0956373380ISBN-13: 9780956373380Publisher: Wild Wolf PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2010Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

John Martin is a best-selling Defoe biographer. He reveals for the first time the real life of Defoe, best known for his enormously successful first book, Robinson Crusoe, that has sold in enormous numbers around the world for nearly three hundred years. It is...

"Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance" is the powerful, poignant, at times funny story of Bernard Mednicki, a working-class, activist member of his socialist union in pre-Nazi Belgium who flees with his family to southern France when the Nazis invade,...

The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to...

One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of...

In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. "I have...

Eyewitness account of Frost's 1962 visit to the Soviet UnionAt the height of the Cold War in 1962, the most American of poets travels to the Soviet Union to have it out with Premier Nikita Khrushchev. For the first time in paperback, Zephyr Press...

The classic work. First Time in PaperbackAuthor: Joesph SchechtmanISBN-10: 0935437495ISBN-13: 9780935437492Publisher: Eshel BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages: 562Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d

The classic work. First Time in PaperbackAuthor: Menachem Begin, Joesph SchechtmanISBN-10: 0935437487ISBN-13: 9780935437485Publisher: Eshel BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages: 430Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.96h x 5.96w x 0.92d

Author: Paul WilliamsISBN-10: 0934558345ISBN-13: 9780934558341Publisher: Entwhistle BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2000Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 11.05h x 8.29w x 0.47d

2014 Award of Merit - American Association for State and Local History Lt. James E. H. Foster (1848-1883) lived a short but eventful life as a junior officer on the Northern Plains. His story--and his illustrated journal--provide a rich portrait of the frontier army...

In 1945, a fifteen-year-old North Carolina farm girl and a sixteen-year-old Liverpool schoolboy begin a 50-year-long correspondence.Author: Elaine L. Goolsby, Blythe BooherISBN-10: 0932112390ISBN-13: 9780932112392Publisher: Carolina Wren PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/1999Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

This volume provides a fresh historical focus on George Washington as a pioneer farmer actively engaged in a new approach to agriculture: one based on a more scientific attitude toward crops, farm animals, and the land. As Alan and Donna Jean Fusonie examined his...

This profoundly honest Holocaust memoir describes the transformation of everyday anti-Semitism into the Holocaust nightmare. Central to the story are the years Mielnicki spent in the camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Mittelbau-Dora and Belsen. Mielnicki's account is a harrowing yet powerfully redeeming human drama. Includes...

In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The...

These 101 men and 101 women who made history in New Mexico are people of adventure and challengers of destiny. The early ones explored and pioneered in this land of paradox. Between the years of Fray Marcos de Niza and the "Moon Men" is...

Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found the letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were written by their...

"There's no margin for mistakes in submarines. You're either alive or dead."-Richard O'Kane Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O'Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank more enemy ships and...

When V Amphibious Corps were preparing for the invasion of the Marianas Islands--Saipan, Guam, and Tinian--they were expecting a relatively easy fight. The Japanese appeared to be on the run. As D day for Saipan (the first of the three islands scheduled for conquest)...

Fountain Goodlet Oxsheer--like Slaughter or Goodnight--was an unusual and appealing name for one of Texas' most dynamic cattle ranchers. Once the baron of an intricate network of ranches that stretched from Oklahoma and the Texas Staked Plains down to northern Mexico, Oxsheer prospered, endured,...