Biography: historical, political and military

Matthew Poole (162479), author of the famous Synopsis Criticorum Biblicum, was a seventeenth century ecclesiastical leader, nonconformist, apologist, and minister in England.

Scipio Africanus was one of the greatest generals and statesmen of the Ancient World.

This definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man .

The adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, and humble revolutionary Winner of the 2007 Daily Mail Biographer's Club PrizeAn unconventional biography of an unconventional woman.

Während Nero, der Kaiser Roms, neue Siege in Olympischen Wettstreit errang und so glaubte, seine Göttlichkeit beweisen und seine Macht stabilisieren zu können, mussten Andere dafür als Bewahrer dieser Macht auftreten.

An illuminating example of friendship as a vital way God answers our need for guidance, encouragement, affirmation, and correction.

Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living.

A guide to the over 150 families that ruled the Classical world, from the 10th century BC to the 8th century AD, from western Europe to central Asia.

Politics, Death and Addiction tells how an active Member of Parliament, psychologist and mother became addicted to alcohol and 'pokies', while rearing her granddaughter and working as a Member of Parliament, following her daughter's suicide.

Frank Vans Agnew left America in 1914 and claiming to be 40 (rather than 46) enlisted in 2nd King Edward's Horse.

Subway Music is about finding things Reynold Junker thought he had lost forever: his subway music and his name.

November 1, 1943.

Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the fi nal capitulation of Nazi Germany.

The Revolutionary War colonel—and leader of the famed Culper Spy Ring—tells his story in this fascinating historical autobiography.

Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power.

The Saints Way: My Personal Journey to Discovery shares the inspirational story of William St.

"e;Sir John Norton-Griffiths was one of a breed of adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur and soldier whose like is very seldom seen.

Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power.

Dem geneigten Leser liegen mit der derzeitigen Veröffentlichung zwanzig Romanteile voller Geschichte, Spannung und Abenteuer vor.

Rene Levesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team.

The inspiring memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: ATA girl, Spitfire expert and pioneer.

Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peace.

The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.

Archibald Wavells life and career makes a marvelous subject.

A father's heartbreaking memoir of the abduction and murder of his son, James Bulger, and his relentless fight for justice against an incomprehensible evil.

The Author wrote numerous letters home from the campaigns that he fought with Wellington in the Peninsular when he was commanding his Regiment.

Lawrence Attwell was one of the lucky ones, surviving over four years of trench warfare on the Western Front.

The decade of the fifties may have been the last to allow children to be children.

John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles.

Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city.

When the Great War broke out, Kitchener, with the foresight lacking in many of his contemporaries, insisted that it would last at least three years and that he must raise an army of 3 million men.

John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth centurys most influential personalities in film culture.

Better times will come again - a fascinating insight into how ordinary people cope in extraordinary circumstances.

Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential and controversial British politicians of the 1930s.

A unique perspective on Ontario's most powerful political leaders.

Youve heard his namenow read his classic spiritual autobiography.

The danger of participating in live-fire exercises and a Christmas spent in a military prison are described in detail in this graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War.

In 1669, fleeing a London decimated by the plague and the Great Fire, a young English child arrived, alone, at Fort St.