Biography: historical, political and military

»Es sind so viele politische Klischees über meinen Werdegang und meine Regierungszeit in die Welt gesetzt worden, dass die Legenden über die historischen Zusammenhänge bereits zu verdrängen drohen, wie es wirklich war.

A New York Times bestseller, this is the ';outstanding' (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.

There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories--the abduction of Guinevere, the Holy Grail, and Tristan.

George Campbell (1719-1796) has long been regarded as a seminal figure in the development of modern theories of persuasion, but modern students of rhetoric seldom look beyond his Philosophy of Rhetoric to his equally important religious writings.

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

It was Solomon's fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters.

First published in 1959, The Autobiography of James Monroe collects the compelling fragments of Monroe's unfinished autobiography, written after his retirement from the presidency.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.

The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of letters This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life.

This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch.

Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist.

Bigger than The Great Escape.

A glimpse into the life of Acadian folk hero Pierre Belliveau, known as Piau, who led his people into exile during the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians.

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There have been many serious abuses of presidential power in recent decades, including Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Lewinsky affair, subsequently Americans have demonstrated renewed interest in discussing the relationship between character and political leadership.

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Few families have influenced America like the Roosevelts--two presidents from different parties, including our longest-serving chief executive, and the "e;First Lady of the World.

Exile.

Forging a Special Operations Force: The U.

This groundbreaking biography of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia presents many startling new revelations, among them his role as an international revolutionary leader and his relationship with Winston Churchill.

Explores the life and court career of Madame de Maintenon.

Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is most famous for his role as the first Commissioner ever to rule organized baseball.

William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War.

The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810 1876).

The rise to power of Eliot Spitzer, the scourge of Wall Street and one of America's most controversial politicians, by the reporter who knows his crusade bestFew politicians have burst onto the American scene with as much impact as Eliot Spitzer.

Hugo Ch,vez, military officer turned left-wing revolutionary, was one of the most important Latin American leaders of the twenty-first century.

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century.

Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister.

In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805.

Sacagawea, kidnapped as an adolescent and sold as a slave to a French-Canadian fur trader, is best known for her role as interpreter and symbol of goodwill for Lewis and Clark on their journey west.

DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) dominated the politics of New York State during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, serving as mayor of New York City and then governor of the state.

Mathildi Kalogeropoulou war eine Widerstandskämpferin während des Zweiten Weltkrieges.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man.

This is Andr Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times.

Le 29 avril 1970, à 36 ans, Robert Bourassa devient le plus jeune premier ministre du Québec.

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr.

The life of the first-century man born Saul of Tarsus, who went on to become Paul the Apostle, by the acclaimed historian and author of Thermopylae.

The Backroom Boy opens dramatically in China, 1962.

Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history.

Acclaim for Doc Holliday "e;Splendid .

';To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that's not hard,' Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country.

From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas.

A stunning autobiographical account of the fight for freedom in Ho Chi Min's Vietnam.

Diese sehr lesbar und flüssig geschriebene Autobiographie von Toni Sender, die sich nie in Nebensächlichkeiten verliert, ist ein ebenso spannender wie informativer Bericht über das turbulente politische Leben in der Weimarer Republik aus der Sicht einer engagierten Frau, die sich auf einem Gebiet profilierte, das auch heute noch nicht als selbstverständliche »Frauensache« gilt.