Biography & Autobiography - Historical

The Story of the Swedenborg Manuscripts is a book written by S. C. Eby that explores the life and work of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian who lived in the 18th century. The book focuses on the manuscripts that Swedenborg wrote...

""The Story Of Ninon De L'Enclos, The Celebrated Aspasia Of France"" is a historical biography written by Ira Yale and originally published in 1843. The book tells the story of Ninon de l'Enclos, a famous French courtesan and intellectual who lived during the 17th...

""Three Generations of Northboro Davises, 1781-1894"" is a historical book written by John Davis Estabrook and published in 1908. The book is a detailed account of the lives and achievements of three generations of the Davis family from Northboro, Massachusetts. The first generation includes...

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...

""A History Of The Talley Family On The Delaware, And Their Descendants"" is a book written by George A. Talley in 1899. It is a comprehensive genealogical account of the Talley family who lived in the Delaware region of the United States. The book...

The Three Trappers: A Story Of Adventure In The Wilds Of Canada is a thrilling novel written by Achilles Daunt and first published in 1882. The story follows the adventures of three trappers, Jack, Tom, and Bill, who are on a mission to explore...

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco Chronicle Cummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic expression. Because of his powerful work, he became a generation's beloved heretic--at the time...

This emotionally riveting book traces the travails of three young Polish Jewish women attempting to resurrect their lives in the bitter aftermath of World War II. After years in a concentration camp, they must first fend off the lusty Russian soldiers who free them....

The Book Have you heard of the Irish rugby international who played in a monocle? Or the man who walked to Jerusalem and back for a bet? Or the person who tried to convert the Pope? These surreal-yet-true stories will be found within the...

Author: Frank StiffelISBN-10: 0738843288ISBN-13: 9780738843285Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Despite an abundance of literature on Richard Nixon, the man behind the most spectacular crash-and-burn career of modern political history has remained an enigma. What lay behind his obsessive hunger for power and control, his paranoid attacks against enemies real and perceived, his refusal...

Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make...

A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of...

Author: Tommye StaleyISBN-10: 197727952XISBN-13: 9781977279521Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2025Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: Axel MuntheISBN-10: 1849027099ISBN-13: 9781849027090Publisher: Oxford City PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2010Pages: 548Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas--a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. James MacKay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this definitive biography,...

When Hitler's invasion shattered Norway's peace of one hundred years, Gunnar Sonsteby, a timid youth, was destined to become the legendary "No. 24," whose exploits earned the highest honors Norway could bestow when it was restored after World War II. REPORT FROM #24 is...

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon of America sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells...

The literature about the Holocaust is vast and includes the stories of survivors. While most such memoirs have dealt with experiences in concentration camps, those in this collection are by survivors--children who overcame the Nazi persecution while they were very young. The stories, collected...

Explore the extraordinary journey of Jimmy Carter, a humble peanut farmer who rose to the heights of American politics and captured the world's admiration. In this compelling biography, discover the man behind the presidency, a leader shaped by unwavering faith, a profound commitment to...

Embark on a Timeless Adventure Across the SeasStep aboard the majestic RMS *Olympic*, a marvel of maritime engineering and the heroine of a bygone era. "The Grand Journey of RMS Olympic: From Launch to Legacy" invites you to relive the grandeur, tragedy, and triumphs...

""What Actually Happened To Hitler: The Inside Story Of His Strange Disappearance"" is a book written by Dan Gilbert that explores the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Adolf Hitler. The book delves into the various theories and speculations surrounding Hitler's disappearance, including the possibility...

Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock...

Born and raised on an Army base, Syl Castillo, an island boy of mixed ancestry, fancies himself as another John Wayne after years of living with the Americans. His idyllic world comes to an abrupt end when World War II erupts in the Pacific....

In this bittersweet and beautifully written memoir, Carolyn See embarks on nothing less than a reevaluation of the American Dream. Although it features a clan in which dysfunction was something of a family tradition, Dreaming is no victim's story. With a wry humor and...

Eudora Welty is a beloved institution of Southern fiction and American literature, whose closely guarded privacy has prevented a full-scale study of her life and work--until now. A significant contribution to the world of letters, Ann Waldron's biography chronicles the history and achievements of...

A cinematic and thrilling true story exploring the life and catastrophic marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore--"a tale of wealth, status, and privilege, laced with lust, greed, [and] pride" (The Times) "Spectacular . . . Serious, perceptive, thoughtful and--by no means least--compulsively...

In this historical memoir, Janet Holasek Worrall traces several generations of her ancestors leaving Bohemia in the 1850s and settling on farmland in Minnesota. It details daily life from the mid-1920s to the 1960s on Richard and Evelyn Holasek's farm, where the author and...

This volume highlights the career of Historian Thomas G. Alexander. Four essayists honor his work and contribution to the field of Western History. These essays were first presented at a Western Historical Society annual meeting.Author: Jay H. BuckleyISBN-10: 0998696056ISBN-13: 9780998696058Publisher: Brigham Young University Charles...

Members of the Girty, McKee, and Elliott families were actively involved in Indian-white diplomacy in the American Northwest from before the 1730s to the end of the War of 1812. The involvement included as many as five generations in the families. Family members started...

Dispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more. California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned figures and iconoclasts; politicians, actors, and artists; the world-famous and the not-so-much--all have...

Survivors Victory Nihon Hidankyo's Journey to the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by Hudson Finney is a powerful, unmissable chronicle of resilience, hope, and the relentless fight for a nuclear-free world. This compelling book tells the incredible true story of how Japan's atomic bomb survivors,...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in the coal regions hacked themselves to death from black lung disease, and pollution in the commonwealth's water killed tens of thousands more. In...

A critical biography of the mysterious but prolific medieval printer. Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe's first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fascinated a wide audience. Due to scant and vague fifteenth-century documentation, however, Gutenberg's career...

Before his New York home became a museum, Henry Clay Frick engaged some of his era's most important art dealers to build a notable collection and the best decorators to create suitable Gilded Age interiors to accommodate the works. This story traces the journey...

Snap Beads: A Remembering is a nonfictional memoir of an aging woman. During this story of time and memory, a string of events unfolds that touches on historic and societal issues such as WWII and PTSD, alcoholism, drug addiction, suicide, abandonment, adoption, and survival....

Lousi Hagen, as a young German Jew in 1934, aged only 17, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. His time there was mercifully cut short when he was released to his school friend's...

This is the complete life story of Pirate Barbarossa or Khaireddine Barbarous, who dictated it to his colleague and friend in the sea life the poet and writer Syed Ali Almuradi. He recorded his autobiography after a request of Sultan Soleiman Alkanuni, known as...

... marching with our squadron in a line formation, we made a left turn and then a hard stop in a ravine; shortly after, the better mounted officers took the lead and went up a slope. We then marched three hundred meters from where...

Immerse yourself in the timeless tales of Plutarch's classic work, Lives. In this six-volume set translated from the original Greek, Plutarch presents the biographies of some of history's most famous figures, from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Lycurgus and Solon. With lively...

This book is a collection of reminiscences and anecdotes from the life of Beverley Bland Munford, a prominent figure in Virginia during the 19th century. Filled with charming insights and amusing tales, it provides a unique perspective on life in the Old South.This work...

Embark on a journey into the heart of darkness with CIA officer Tony Poe, as he navigates the murky world of espionage in Southeast Asia. Uncover the truth behind Poe's unorthodox tactics and his similarities to Colonel Kurtz of the legendary film 'Apocalypse Now'....

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

At the end of World War II Europe overflowed with Displaced People (DPs). The horror camps of the Nazis did not close straight after liberation. The people of the camps had to wait to be resettled and it was Jewish survivors who waited the...

The author Boris Sokolov offers this first objective and intriguing biography of Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, who is widely considered one of the Red Army's top commanders in the Second World War. Yet even though he brilliantly served the harsh Stalinist system, Rokossovsky himself...

Barbara Culp McKinney, my ancestor, survived a brutal Indian attack that occurred in Chester, South Carolina in 1761. She was brutally scalped and left for dead by a band of Cherokee Indians. This is the story of her courageous survival.Author: Katherine FletcherISBN-10: 172491412XISBN-13: 9781724914125Publisher:...