Biography: historical, political and military

Those who describe Ontario political leaders as bland or boring do not remember the days of Mitchell Hepburn.

Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country.

This book illuminates Warwick's character and motivation, showing that he was an emotional, charming, and popular man with a strong sense of family loyalty.

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.

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Peter Riehl, Jahrgang 1942, ist ohne Zweifel eine der bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten der Kurpfalz.

The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.

In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state.

The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern FrontMoscow, Stalingrad, Kurskare etched into the historical record.

Known for his rousing speeches and military triumphs, General George S.

Achille Ratti, bekannt als Papst Pius XI.

The great American leader uses his voice to change history, alter politics, and bring hope of a brighter future to generations to come.

Als Prinzregent von Bayern lenkte Luitpold über 26 Jahre lang die Geschicke seines Königreichs – und das in einer der turbulentesten Phasen der europäischen Geschichte.

The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times–bestselling author.

This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp.

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E.

With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever.

Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Critics have called the two prior volumes in this life of Woodrow Wilson "e;a model of political biography"e; (Arthur M.

Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope.

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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon.

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.

In this moving collection of first-person accounts, the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces take us inside life in the military and share their personal stories of courage, perseverance, and sacrifice.

If this doesn't move you, I suggest you check your pulse.

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman.

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Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "e;Flo"e; Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements.

Halide Edip Adivars Lebensgeschichte spiegelt den stürmischen Umbruch ihres Landes.

Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.

Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery.

Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines.

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997.

A concise biography of the legendary Union general and controversial US president from “one of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews).

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display.

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

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Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies.

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist.

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience.

A faith-based journey of the heart as a woman seeks healing from a troubled past by looking to one of the Bible’s most misunderstood characters.

"e;The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under Oliver Cromwell.

As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known.

Bill Yenne brings to life the untold story of Lidiya Vladimirovna, Russia's World War II flying ace, who lit up the skies over Germany and Russia while flying 66 combat missionsOf all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women.

In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from the violent world of the American colonial frontier, and a man recognized as a martyr by many Americans.