The son of a poor butcher, John Gully rose to the height of Victorian respectability, whose death in ripe old age was mourned by all classes from paupers to princes.
How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two historically significant periods.
The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself.
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the untimely death of America's most popular president, Kennedy: His Life & Legacy is a candid look at the charisma and excitement that captured the nation during John F.
The outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes following Ronald Reagan's death demonstrated the love and admiration people still have for our nation's 40th president.
One of Essence's Best Books of the YearNAACP Image Awards Winner for Outstanding Literary WorkWith a foreword by Speaker Nancy PelosiThere was no greater friend to the poor, to the lost, to the left out, and tothe left behind.
The long government service of Francois Boissy d'Anglas from 1789 to 1826 is unique, and his abundant writing provides a new look at the great drama of the French Revolution era.
They are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten – Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World War leaders.
Although much has been written about Richard Nixon the man and the politician, comparatively little attention has been paid to Nixon the public speaker.
Lincoln scholars explore the president’s law career in this informative volume, examining his legal writings on matters from ethics to the Constitution.
Take the journey with me from a kid in a small farming community in the Midwest to the jungles of southeast Asia, where I am proud to say I served with the U.