Biography: historical, political and military

Queen Victoria was, until the 21st century, the longest-reigning monarch in British history and reigned over an empire "e;on which the sun never set.

This concise biography of the world's most notorious terrorist tells the fascinating story of the evolution of a wealthy businesman's son to the 9/11 mastermind who declared war on America.

Captain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had.

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the blonde tigress and the most dangerous woman alive.

In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation.

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("e;A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"e;- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography.

On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amlcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party.

Hustling Hinkler is mandatory reading for anyone who loves flight .

Based on extraordinary research: a major reassessment of Ronald Reagan's lifelong crusade to dismantle the Soviet Empire–including shocking revelations about the liberal American politician who tried to collude with USSR to counter Reagan's efforts Paul Kengor's God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the premier chroniclers of the life and career of the 40th president.

The test pilot and author of Nimrod Rise and Fall shares a collection of over twenty tales from the cockpit of Nimrod aircraft during the Cold War.

On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action.

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven geographers.

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr.

Part thriller, part psychological drama, part puzzle with a strange twist, The Mascot is one of the most astonishing stories to emerge from the Second World War.

That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.

Comment la fille d’un petit épicier anglais se retrouve-t-elle Premier ministre ?

The danger of participating in live-fire exercises and a Christmas spent in a military prison are described in detail in this graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War.

From 1928 to 1943, Erich Raeder led the German navy during the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and through World War II, yet until now there has not been a full-length biography written about him.

An important new biography of America's founding religious father.

Obama: An Essential Guide to the Democratic Nominee goes beyond the headlines to provide, objectively, an examination of his life, his leadership abilities, and an issue-by-issue comparison with challenger John McCain.

In this insightful biography, Burton I.

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In this elegant and rigorously researched work, Kenneth McNaught details the life, work, and principles of J.

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Union general John Pope was among the most controversial andmisunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.

An absolute classic of autobiography and history - one of the few books to explore how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and Nazism.

John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the "e;Salem Zouaves"e; (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company's service during the early months of the Civil War.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe American Dream isn't a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule.

"e;Louis Sahagun's gripping biography is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the last century's most important mystical thinkers.

He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career.

This is the first modern biography of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin.

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas.

The authorised - but not uncritical - life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, who was also an eminent man of letters.

At its height, the Napoleonic Empire spanned much of mainland Europe.

ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'An extraordinary book .

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies.

The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage.

To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable.

GRIT GUTS and GALLANTRY was the first book written by Col Mahip Chadha.

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.