Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This is a gripping account of what it is like to live as a Palestinian - as a refugee in your own homeland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing about Palestinian affairs since 1985. She first worked as...

Gundel's story takes place at a time of great upheaval and social change. She is born into a comfortable middle class family in pre -war Germany. She is bright, articulate and talented and looks forward to a promising career. That is, until Hitler rises...

This is the story of the Cox family, told in brief vignettes. They focus primarily on when the children were young and times were hard and unbending during the 1930s and 40s in West Texas. These are tales of courage, love shared, and battles...

Author Mansour Ajami was born during World War II in Saghbine, a poverty-stricken Lebanese village that had remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages. His autobiography, The Book of Generations: A Reunion with Memory, traces his adaptation to the culture and thought of twenty-first-century...

Author: Richard E. ErwinISBN-10: 0595001270ISBN-13: 9780595001279Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.94w x 1.15d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

At its height, the Napoleonic Empire spanned much of mainland Europe. Feted and feared by millions of citizens, Napoleon was the most powerful and famous man of his age. But following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo the future of the one-time Emperor...

William Morris--the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer--remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News from Nowhere), his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the...

Rip Ford was a bold, fearless combat leader, an expert pistoleer, and a master tactician who led hard-hitting cavalry charges against foes with far greater numbers. Ford was a ferocious warrior against the enemies of his beloved Texas, and from his first arrival in...

Vincent C. Guess: Autobiography and History of ICM, CMII, and IPEBy: Vincent C. GuessJobs are to be done right the first time and every time. When results Do not conform, we look for causes.Lesson learned: When information is clear, concise and valid, conforming results...

David Crockett was one of America's first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did this not only by prowess with a rifle but through...

This story grew out of an extended family system in rural Mississippi in the early 1940s. This occurred at a time widen many black families were immigrating North. Hey young African-American boy of age 18 months has the misfortune of being caught in the...

This is the impressive and inspiring story of a remarkable man, born a slave on a Virginia plantation, who overcame the multiple disadvantages of being born "black" in America to become a prosperous businessman and respected member of an adopted community in Ohio.It is...

Elizabeth Robinson Scovil: A Driving Force in Nursing Education . . . Co-founder of The Victorian Order of Nurses.A founder of National Council of Women of Canada.Author of best selling books on child health & development.A founding editor of The Ladies Home Journal &...

From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.One of seven children of...

In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan, becoming the most influential Indian...

This biography tells the story of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a prominent politician and explorer in the Tudor era. Gilbert was an early proponent of English colonization of North America before his untimely death at sea. This book provides a fascinating look into the life...

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in...

Take an exciting trip into the unknown worlds of new ideas with "Those Who Will Forge the Way Into the Future Today." In this fascinating look at how creative people can be, Jelena takes you on a journey through history and into the minds...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave. The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. She explores the struggles and...

In 1871 when the University of Alabama reopened after its destruction by federal troops, Eugene Allen Smith returned to his alma mater as professor of geology and mineralogy. After persuading the legislature to appoint him state geologist in 1873, he spent his summers enduring...

Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, Walker's biography of Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, offers a new look into a devoted marriage and fascinating partnership that ultimately created a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. This edition...

Life Story of Mary Lyon: Founder of Mount Holyoke College is a biography of Mary Lyon, the pioneering educator who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1837. Written by Mrs. John Douglas and first published in 1897, the book chronicles...

Society As I Have Found It is a book written by Ward McAllister and published in 1890. The book provides a detailed account of the author's experiences and observations of the high society in New York City during the late 19th century. McAllister, who...

Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian, a skeleton crew, and...

Author: David G. Dalin, John F. RothmannISBN-10: 8200136493ISBN-13: 9798200136490Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2008Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs

Books make great gifts! The Wedge Family History and Genealogy book is an informative and engaging resource that offers a comprehensive look at the Wedge family's history, culture, and traditions. From the family's earliest roots in the Grand River Six Nations Reserve to the...

Before purchasing this book, read on the "ISSUU" website. In this biographical book, find out which was the first Christian novel produced in the world. Even more, get to know American Christian productions, the ups and downs of Christian films in theaters, the timid...

Author, Gale Cooper's, book, The Billy the Kid's Bad Bucks Hoax: Faking Billy Bonney as a Brockway Gang Counterfeiter, debunks that hoax as well as the hoaxes that led up to it: the Billy the Kid imposter hoaxes of "Brushy Bill" Roberts and John...

Bess of Hardwick rose from obscurity to be one of the richest women in England and a friend of Elizabeth I. Her story is one of determination, grit, ambition and clever management. Born a poor gentleman farmer's daughter, she died a countess and grandmother...

Robert E. Lee is widely recognized as the greatest commander in U.S. History. But why? In his new book, Ron Field, a member of the DC-based Company of Military Historians, seeks to convey the character, outlook, bearing, leadership style, and military brilliance of the...

Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel Now available in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing...

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...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Man proposes and God disposes. There are but few important events...

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" With those words, David Glasgow Farragut led a fleet of Union warships into Mobile Bay, where he achieved one of the most celebrated victories in American naval history. What separates the good officer from the great one, writes...

The mind of Norman Bethune contains the most important and revealing writings of Norman Bethune. Illustrated with over 100 contemporary photographs The Mind of Norman Bethune uncovers one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the 20th century. Bethune's distinctive place in modern...

Xenophon was a mercenary, philosopher and military leader of ancient Greece born in Erchia near Athens around -4302, N 1 and died towards -3553. Besides the Anabasis, he wrote a sequel to the History of the War of the Peloponnese of Thucydides entitled The...

On HeroesHero-Worship and the Heroic in HistoryBy Thomas CarlyleWe have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what...

This is not a Booker T. Washington biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the chief phases of the...

Robert Coe, Puritan: His Ancestors And Descendants, 1340-1910, With Notices Of Other Coe Families (1911) is a book written by Joseph Gardner Bartlett. The book is a comprehensive genealogy of the Coe family, tracing their lineage from the 14th century to the early 20th...

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.Author: Henry Ford Trade SchoolISBN-10: 1494069520ISBN-13: 9781494069520Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.59d

Consider this unique and imposing distinction. Since the writing of human history began, Joan of Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeen. Louis KossuthAuthor: Pete...

""Vaccinosis And Its Cure By Thuja: With Remarks On Homeoprophylaxis"" is a book written by James Compton Burnett in 1884. The book discusses the concept of vaccinosis, which refers to the adverse effects of vaccination, and the use of the homeopathic remedy Thuja to...

A collection of true stories that portray the struggles and triumphs of a poor country girl born in a log cabin and growing up during hard times after the Great Depression and through World War II. Between the covers of Faces and Places That...

""Rambles About Morley"" is a book written by William Smith Jr. in 1866. The book is a descriptive and historic account of the town of Morley, located in West Yorkshire, England. The author takes the reader on a journey through the town, providing detailed...

""Six Months At The World's Fair"" is a travelogue written by Mrs. Mark Stevens in 1895. The book provides a detailed account of her six-month stay at the World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, which was held in Chicago in...

Lucinda Hinsdale Stone: Her Life Story And Reminiscences (1902) is a biographical work written by Belle McArthur Perry. The book tells the life story of Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, a prominent American educator and social reformer who lived in the 19th century. The book is...

""20 Hrs. 40 Min., Our Flight In The Friendship: The American Girl, First Across The Atlantic By Air, Tells Her Story"" is a memoir written by Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The book recounts Earhart's historic flight...

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 is a collection of letters written by Napoleon Bonaparte to his first wife, Josephine, during their tumultuous relationship. The letters were compiled and edited by Henry Folijambe Hall and originally published in 1901. The book includes over 200 letters,...