Biography: historical, political and military

MY personal participation in general politics in the Ottoman Empire begins with the coup d'etat of January 23, 1913.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

The Allied forces on the Western Front had taken a beating under the weight and new tactics of the German army masterminded by General Ludendorff in 1918.

That is my story, and if I had to go through it again, I would do it gladly for my country and the flag.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T.

An American with the British forces in France during the First World War recounts his experiences and how his exploits won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Men from all around the far reaches of the British Empire flooded into the ranks of the British army for the titanic struggle against Germany and her allies during the First World War.

"e;Trench sketches by well-known Irish nationalist MP Major 'Willie' Redmond.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.

'Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom.

During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.

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[Illustrated with 17 additional photos of the author and the machines he flew and fought against]As a young Billy Bishop looking up into the sky above his Canadian trench in July 1915, a passing Royal Flying Corps aircraft was returning home from patrol.

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.

'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.

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.

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

Illustrated with 33 photos of the author's comrades, adventures and hospitals.

THE purpose of this little volume is to preserve, for his friends and the many others who cared for his writings, a record of the work which Alec Johnston contributed to Punch during the War.

An American Captain tells the story of his unit of artillery in the Front Lines of the Western front through the battles of St Mihiel and the Argonne to the ceasefire.

The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old.

‘Eminent Victorians’ was first published in 1918 and consists of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.

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.

Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 - 3 May 1940) was an American soldier, former slave, and the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, earning a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army.

Regarded as one of the greatest Presidents of The United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) led a full and vibrant life that reflected his storied personality and presence.

The French Army have had numerous foreign regiments in its service for centuries; however, few have the mystique and elite status of the French Foreign Legion.

Frederick Douglass was born a slave, he escaped a brutal system and through sheer force of will educated himself and became an abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.

Illustrated with 45 pictures and vignettes many in colour.

Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 mapsIN THE ROAD TO ST.

In the early years of Vladmir Putin s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President s most trusted assets.

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.

The short, but poignant and action filled diary of a public school officer who fought with the Irish Guards in the Ypres Salient.

Weak Thing In Moni LandThe Cutts' story is dramatic, humorous and compelling.

More than any other battle of the First World War, the battle of the Somme remains as the abiding memory of the appalling conditions, suffering and death of British manhood in the public consciousness.