Biography: historical, political and military

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Reshaped became an important word in the title as I typed my last words of the manuscript.

Do you have faith or strength to keep fighting?

Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up.

James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of.

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature.

Field Marshal Lord Cavan (1865-1946) was one of the most distinguished commanders of the modern British army, but he divided opinion among his contemporaries.

This Child Will Be Great is an inspirational memoir from Africa’s first elected female president about her improbable rise to international prominence.

BARACK OBAMA FOR BEGINNERS: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States - from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his historic campaign for President.

Kirby was raised in a God fearing home but never really knew God.

Angola's civil war was the longest in Africa.

As I stand here, waiting for the ship to sail to begin a second journey in my life, I find myself looking out over this beautiful city.

This charming little story breaks the autobiography mold.

In this highly acclaimed book, Bonnie Angelo celebrates a group of remarkable women who played a pivotal role in developing the characters of the modern American presidents - their mothers.

Get inside the head of Jane Fonda: actress, political activist, environmentalist, philanthropist, and creator of an unlikely fitness empire that captivated the country beginning in the 1980s.

“You must read this perceptive and well written book.

Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr.

A mix of Tony Hawk and Brian Welch comes together in skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi, who reveals everything about his rise, fall, and redemption, in this amazing tell-all—from being named the greatest skater of all time to bottoming out on drugs to finally finding redemption through God.

Corvette is an icon.

2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD BOOK OF THE YEARIn this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justiceFor more than a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East.

My memoir, Afterthoughts: Reflections of a Vietnam Veteran, is more than just my story.

While the former gold rush town Bodie was becoming a ghost town, the early Scanavino family was busy earning their American dream on a farm they called the Goat Ranch.

In the compelling memoir Hidden Beneath the Thorns, Ingeborg Tismer shares her fascinating journey of what it was like to be an ordinary German citizen during the Nazi regime.

What happens when you learn about sex at too young of an age, when your influenced by a wrong peer group, go into the Navy ending up doing even more drugs, when you marry a bi-sexual and it turns out to be bad?

This Jesus book is a fantasy story by a retired journalist who always wanted to cover Jesus and delve into his life.

This book was transcribed from a journal that was written by Private Richard Harley McKinnon of his experiences while serving in the United States Army during World War II and how he became a broken soldier who eventually goes AWOL in Europe.

My true story, which I have titled There Were Three, is a historical memoir starting with how my parents met, married, and raised eleven children on a farm.

Travesia mas alla del horizonte, es la historia de los inmigrantes indocumentados y las dificultades que afrontan, reflejada en la propia historia del autor.

A look at the leadership style of the brilliant military strategist who also laid the administrative and judicial foundations for much of Western Europe.

The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.