Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Duclos was in his time, as much as his contemporaries Diderot or Voltaire, one of the great personages of the republic of letters; he was, more than any other writer, loaded with titles and honors. He became in turn mayor of Dinan, deputy to...

The German Prince recalls his childhood in Potsdam and Berlin, his marriage and family, the turmoil of World War I, and his exile in Holland. Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Augustus Ernst Hohenzollern of Prussia (1882-1951) was the son of William II. In World War I...

The memoirs of Cardinal de Retz cover all the great events during the minority of Louis XIV and the administration of Cardinal Mazarin. The author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot...

The Duchesse d'Orl?ans, commonly though incorrectly styled the Princess of Bavaria, maintained a very extensive correspondence with her relations and friends in different parts of Europe. Nearly eight hundred of her letters, written to the Princess Wilhelmina Charlotte of Wales and the Duke Antoine-Ulric...

This is the journal of a Civil War Marine Officer, Frank L. Church. A career officer, Church maintained a personal journal through most of the Red River Expedition of 1864. The Red River was a major trouble spot for the Federal river forces in...

The present work is devoted to the history of Beatrice, the younger sister of Isabella d'Este and who, as the wife of Lodovico Sforza, reigned during six years over the most splendid court of Italy. The charm of her personality, the important part which...

Isabella D'Este, the Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) was one of the dazzling figures of the Italian Renaissance, playing the Renaissance game with an expertise that outflanked Popes and Emperors, using her brains, her charm, and her unswerving purpose to psych her opponents. This is...

Isabella D'Este, the Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) was one of the dazzling figures of the Italian Renaissance, playing the Renaissance game with an expertise that outflanked Popes and Emperors, using her brains, her charm, and her unswerving purpose to psych her opponents. This is...

This is the earliest autobiography of an avowed American homosexual, published in St. Louis in 1901. In rural Missouri, then in St. Louis, Hartland lived with his conscience (of his time), yet as a talented and perceptive writer he describes such things as street-cruising...

"Chief Of The Pilgrims" is a 1857 biographical sketch of William Brewster (1568-1644) written by Ashbel Steele. Brewster was an English official and passenger aboard the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has since...

First published in 1845, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave" is an 1845 autobiographical treatise on abolition by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. A leading figure in the...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Kenelm DigbyISBN-10: 1408607050ISBN-13: 9781408607053Publisher: Maine...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: John BakelessISBN-10: 1406761575ISBN-13: 9781406761573Publisher: Bakeless...

Any fan of exploration will find this diary of two soldiers exploring the western United States trying to map territory to place a reservation. Some of the language and attitudes in this book are hard to read from a modern perspective, native Americans treated...

Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius' character provides the key...

Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius' character provides the key...

In this thoroughly revised and updated new edition of his classic biography, David McLellan provides a clear and detailed account both of Marx's dramatic life and of his path-breaking thought together with a wealth of bibliographical information for further reading.Author: David McLellanISBN-10: 1403997306ISBN-13: 9781403997302Publisher:...

To Thomas Carlyle he was not worth his weight in cold bacon, but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was the kindest Minister she had ever had and a dear and devoted friend. In this masterly biography by England's outstanding popular historian (A.N. Wilson), Christopher...

The book is an account of Taiwan's evolving national consciousness told through the biography of its former President Lee Teng-hui - the central figure in the island's political transformation over the past two decades. In describing the broader historical and social context of the...

Author: Leonard MorrisISBN-10: 1403382816ISBN-13: 9781403382818Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2002Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.22w x 0.34d

Author: David M. NoyesISBN-10: 1403305897ISBN-13: 9781403305893Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.36w x 1.13d

It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American "Jim Crow," and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states. Freedom has advanced,...

In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century. On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was...

Here--for the first time in one volume--are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books the acclaimed author mines her family's past and her culture's stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory...

In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary...

In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America's preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor Brombert's heady...

Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer's papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before. In reassessing Scott's life, Crane is able to provide...

Countless books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, yet few historians and biographers have taken Lincoln seriously as a thinker or attempted to place him in the context of major intellectual traditions. In this refreshing, brilliantly argued portrait, Michael Lind examines the ideas and...

Rome or Carthage: the struggle between these two great powers of the ancient world determined the course of Western civilization. This mighty clash of civilizations was fought out in Spain, the Alps, the length and breadth of Italy, and in North Africa, where the...

James O. Pattie wrote this historic autobiography to tell tales of his life in the Old West with a group of settlers as they traversed the North American frontier in the early 19th century. Pattie was a headstrong young man and archetypal pioneer facing...

Helen Cody Wetmore's classic account of the life of Buffalo Bill is action-packed and informative, doing full justice to the legend that was William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. As Buffalo Bill's younger sister, Helen Cody Wetmore was in a great position to comment on...

Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of Americans to the plight of...

This splendid edition contains both ancient biographies of Charles the Great by Einhard and the Monk of St. Gall, edited, translated and introduced by Arthur James Grant. Charlemagne is often termed the father of modern Europe, in that he implemented the earliest foundations of...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing extensively on the works of Victor Klemperer, Ruth Kluger, Michal Glowinski, Primo Levi, Imre Kert駸z and B駘a Zsolt, this...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Title: Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution, with an historical essay.Author: Lorenzo SabinePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from...

Title: The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African.Author: Olaudah EquianoPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the...

Title: A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave-trade: containing I. The history of the late conquest of the kingdom of Whidaw by the king of Dahome ... II. The manner how the negroes become slaves ... III. A relation of...

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.Author: Keiichi TakasawaISBN-10: 1258985217ISBN-13: 9781258985219Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.09d

This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.Author: Harvey N. CastlemanISBN-10: 1258980770ISBN-13: 9781258980771Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d

The Light In The Prison Window: The Life Story Of Hans Nielsen Hauge is a biography written by Wilhelm Pettersen. The book tells the inspiring life story of Hans Nielsen Hauge, a Norwegian lay preacher and revivalist who lived in the late 18th and...

Sky Master: The Story of Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company is a comprehensive biography of Donald Douglas, the founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company. Written by Frank Cunningham, the book traces the life of Donald Douglas from his early years as an...

Author: John Joseph StoudtISBN-10: 125882681XISBN-13: 9781258826819Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2013Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.84d

Author: James A. Jr. GibbsISBN-10: 1258813041ISBN-13: 9781258813048Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2013Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

Author: John N. MakrisISBN-10: 1258806886ISBN-13: 9781258806880Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2013Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.69d

Author: Dashiell HammettISBN-10: 1258799014ISBN-13: 9781258799014Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2013Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d

The Luciano Story is a biographical account of the life of Charles ""Lucky"" Luciano, one of the most notorious figures in the history of organized crime in America. Written by Sid Feder, a journalist who covered the crime beat in New York City during...