The career of Jeanne Dare-the name usually is written Jeanne d'Arc or Joan of Arc, an absurd equivalent-was so extraordinary, her personality was so marvellous, that she has been from the very beginning a constant source of interest to biographers and historians.
The Memoirs of Count Apponyi by Graf Albert Apponyi is a captivating and deeply personal account of the life and times of one of Hungary's most distinguished statesmen.
The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom.
"e;An American eagle with British wingsReaders interested in the personal experiences of the resolute and brave young men who ventured into the air to fight the first aerial combats will discover much to reward them in this book.
Una selección de textos y cartas que captan la experiencia de la vida del hermano Carlos de Foucauld, en la que el Espíritu Santo manifestó un modo de entender la vida cristiana que creemos mantiene su validez en nuestros días.
From weathered sailor to fencer to businessman to mayor to magistrate, the inimitable Edwin Macaree, with a passion for phrenology, Shakespeare and the stage, stormed Rockhampton in its early days, often cutting corners in his quest for power, wealth and status.
'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.
Al socaire de la I Guerra Mundial, Maria Botchkareva decide incorporarse a filas y crear batallones de mujeres que se incorporen al frente con el objetivo de contribuir a la expulsion de los alemanes y dar un ejemplo a los hombres.
A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion.
It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American ';Jim Crow,' and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I in this unforgettable true story of young love, war, and how to make sense of the darkest times'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time'Guardian'A haunting elegy for a lost generation'The Times'Should be compulsory reading'Daily MailIn 1914 when war was declared, Vera Brittain was twenty, preparing to study at Oxford.
Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, a monk who shows us how the everyday world can both enrich and endanger our spiritual lives.
A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the Welfare State and was as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.
"e;Scarlet coat to red-tabsIt is a common aspect of uncommon men that their lives are so exceptional that they cannot be adequately described in a few words.
Henry Wood Nevinson, surely thought that he had seen everything that war could throw up; as a seasoned war correspondent, he had followed the British forces in many campaigns including the second Boer War where he was stranded in Ladysmith during the siege.
As the German army moved swiftly into its start positions at the beginning of the First World War, efficiently and seamlessly forming up for the hammer blow that was to fall on France it must have been with some pride that General Ludendorff would look upon the first grand strategical plan that he had a hand in.
