Biography: historical, political and military

Born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) became one of Canada's most famous and controversial Arctic explorers.

This incredible transparent testimony is raw yet still digestible.

The year is 1968.

Author royalties to The Soldiers Charity (ABF) and MPSC Association.

If I were to write the story of my life it would shock the world', Caterina Sforza, 1463-1509.

From the author of Hitler’s Girls comes the revealing true story of the aftermath of WWII—told by the Third Reich’s fallen “Angels of Death” themselves.

Although wielding huge influence in late Victorian and Edwardian political life, Reginald Baliol Brett (1852 1930), the second Lord Esher was, an enigma to his contemporaries and still remains a puzzle to historians.

In late 2003, five Military Intelligence Soldiers were tasked to track the radical firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Taher Dajani remembers playing soccer with his neighborhood friends in his idyllic city of Jaffa, Palestine.

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY – and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.

The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years.

'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West.

This biography of the 12th century Islamic military leader provides a fascinating view of the Crusades and the Medieval Muslim world.

The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War.

I was born in the flat fertile Mississippi Delta in 1940.

Jacque Plante, the first National Hockey League goalie to regularly wear protective facemask, was known for roving out of his net.

On 8 May 1945, 46-year-old Drum Major, Henry Barnes Jackson, staggered towards his American liberators.

The Stephanie Rodrigue story is one of tremendous faith in a God full of Grace as she pours out her heart and soul in her eleven year journey with cancer through her emails to family, friends and her prayer warriors.

When Pearl Harbor was attacked, Mel Amler was a sociable and motivated dental student completing his first semester at New York University.

An intriguing new biography of the fifteenth-century Duchess of York and mother to two kings of England.

"e;Sacred Journeys is a totally fascinating book, raw with spiritual emotion and sexual frankness.

Therefore, there is no condemnation to those are who in Christ Jesus.

Frederick Douglass: A Biography (1899) is a book by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt.

Jock Lewes was a dashing young Welsh Guards officer who created a new approach to modern warfare in the SAS with less than two year's experience as a soldier.

'To attack and ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla.

The biography of an activist who dedicated her long life to standing up for women, children, and the poor.

When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magnificent proxy ceremony held at Richmond Palace in January 1503, no one could have guessed that this pretty, redheaded princess would go on to have a marital career as dramatic and chequered as that of her younger brother Henry VIII.

The books central theme is GUILT: how its a uniquely human idea, and whether this raises us higher or drags us lower than other animals; how guilt is disabling and why individuals and societies tend to scapegoat; how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is historys propulsive force; and my miraculous ability to redeem others by absorbing guilt from them.

Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist.

The daughter of a rich Greek family in Constantinople escapes from her dysfunctionalfamily by getting romantically involved with a handsome visitingpeasant.

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Angel of the East Indies is about two young people growing up in the simplicity of the Dutch farming community prior to World War II that fall in love only to get separated when one of them joins the military.

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor.

William Watson was a young Oxford post-graduate at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

This book tells the story of Captain Evelyn Decker, a pioneer, as one of the first African American nurses to serve in the U.

Holocaust survivors who were children during the Nazi persecution wrote this collection of memoirs.

Throughout all the game of war, in every Age, there has been no task so fascinating, so alive with thrills, as that of the scout.

Writer, activist, and politician Nellie McLung (1873-1951) was a strong and effective voice for the women's movement.

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This is the true story of Master Sergeant David M.

This is the story of Isaac Brown, a slave who was accused of the attempted murder of a plantation owner in Maryland, escaped, and ultimately made his way to freedom in Canada.