Biography: historical, political and military

In 1914, the anonymous author, a journalist by profession with no pretensions to military training, embarked on one of the most outrageous escapades of the First World War as he travelled behind German lines, collecting information on the German war machine.

Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.

"e;Oliver Hogue (1880-1919), journalist and soldier, was born on 29 April 1880 in Sydney .

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.

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.

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.

A Kiwi surgeon recounts his experiences of life under fire tending to the wounded in the first year of World War One.

Truth spoke about abolition, women's rights, prison reform, and preached to the Legislature against capital punishment.

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.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs.

'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.

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.

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 history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality.

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.

Includes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918"e;Fresh and vivid memoir of an Australian horseman serving in the Palestine campaign.

Further letters from the Front, continuing on from "e;A Sunny Subaltern, Billy's Letters from Flanders.

Few accounts of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign are as famous as that of John Masefield, and justly so, for so few have captured the danger, death and heroism on the Peninsula.

"e;The author of this memoir arrived on the Western Front to join 10th Bn.

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

During the First World War the skies above became a new frontier for warfare, as many of the soldiers below caught their first glimpse of an airplane from the ground the pioneering airmen fought to gain control of the skies.

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.

Illustrated With the Gallipoli Campaign Pack - 71 photos and 33 mapsThe Gallipoli Peninsular in 1915 was an awful place to be an Allied soldier, for the Australians who had travelled thousands of miles to answer the call of their mother country it must have seemed like hell.

Illustrated with 6 portraitsEven before the official entry of the United States of America into the First World War in April 1917, many of its citizens had already crossed over "e;The Pond"e; and already had lent their efforts to the Allied cause.

Hitlers Mein Kampf combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of his political ideology.

"e;The 'shark killers' of the U.

Friedrich "e;Fritz"e; Kreisler was an Austrian-American violinist and composer of great renown, often regarded as one of the finest violinists of all time.

"e;Joe (Corporal Rendinell) at the outbreak of the War was working in the steel mills as an electrician.

[Illustrated with 47 paintings and photos]Walter Hale was a man of many talents - actor, writer, artist and war correspondent - before his life was cut short by cancer in 1917.

"e;Great War memoirs of an officer who served on the Western front as a battalion commander (2 DLI) then as commander 91st Brigade, 7th Division.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

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.

Captain Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, now lying in Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, a fallen officer of the Scots Guards who died bravely trying to go to the rescue of his commanding officer during the battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915.