Biography: historical, political and military

Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos.

The author was a skeptic by nature and a research scientist by training.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

The gifted young historian (Richard Norton Smith) who gave us Founding Rivals, Chris DeRose delivers the first fully realized portrait of Abraham Lincolns ambitious and controversial early political career, and his surprising ascendancy that was both historic and far from inevitable.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic work of American literature that offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of one of the country's founding fathers.

Immerse yourself in the incredible life of Alexander the Great with this engaging biography by Jacob Abbott.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate general J.

The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosMemoirs of an officer, brother of the war correspondent, Philip Gibbs, who enlisted as a trooper in 9th Lancers, was commissioned into the Royal Artillery at the end of 1914, then served in Salonika and on the Western front.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ';Part personal chronicle and part political journeya candid assessment of some of her colleagues in the White House and the media.

The New York Times-bestselling author's biography reveals that President Reagan's greatest virtue wasn't allegiance to country, but allegiance to God.

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography.

Narrative of the Life of Mrs.

A critically acclaimed autobiography that exemplifies the American Dream by one of nineteenth-century America’s most philanthropic businessmen.

Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin.

The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family.

Martin Hammack, a farmer, a wagon train master, and Indian scout, from Lincoln County Missouri was seeking new adventure after hearing of the virgin lands and opportunity that California offered, from his son who had gone there during the gold rush of 1849.

The horrors of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and labor camps were just the beginning of the struggle to survive for the Seiler family.

Who was the first king of England?

Der Protagonist, Georg, als neunzehnjähriger von der Wehrmacht eingezogen.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

When a senior army officer is killed in action holding off an enemy attack threatening to overrun his outpost, the confidence of his comrades is rocked.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

Imagine a remote community in Paraguay, South America, where you read by candle light, draw your water from a well, cook your meals on an open fire and attend to your needs in a rickety outhouse.

Fast’s fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascismThe world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote The Incredible Tito.

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.

As the first Muslim elected to Congress, Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison explores what it's like to be an American in the twenty-first century.

'Cut iron with iron,What makes iron valuable,Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree,Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people and founds an empire.

In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge.