Biography: historical, political and military

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A biography of the wildly colorful eighteenth-century British politician who became "e;the toast of American revolutionaries"e; (Booklist).

Benito Mussolini nacque il 29 luglio 1883 alle 2:45 pomeridiane in Varano de Costa, nella Villa San Cassiano, al n.

A fully updated edition of Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative, the first major biography of David Cameron, and now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosMajor-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914.

This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1930.

The memoir of a dyed-in-the-wool racist forced to change his beliefs to succeed in the progressively changing times of twentieth-century America.

In The Days of Queen Victoria is the story of Queen Victoria, the woman who became queen at eighteen and for nearly 64 years wore the crown of Great Britain.

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

Lives that Never Grow OldPart of a radical series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

The day of my first Audience at the Chinese Court, August 5th, we were up betimes at the American Legation, for it takes full three hours to drive out to the Summer Palace from Peking; and punctuality is the etiquette of Oriental as well as of Occidental potentates.

William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years.

The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age.

This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw.

Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

Mary Prince was the first woman slave to write of her experience.

The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain.

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Henry VIII is Britain's most notorious monarch, remembered for his six wives and splitting the church in two for the sake of annulling his first marriage.

It was the celebrated Canadian physician and poet Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae that wrote the famous lines "e;In Flanders fields the poppies blow"e; as an opening to his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'.

This work of the well-known historian and man-of-letters, Mr.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian looks at the complex, controversial Union commander who ensured the Confederacy’s downfall in the Civil War.

The Duchess of Kent was not a very popular woman with the Guelph family.

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A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T.

The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during World War One.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FOREMOST SPOKESMAN FOR AMERICAN BLACKSThis is ex-slave Frederick Douglass second autobiography.

In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War.

While his extravagant and glamorous lifestyle is well known, little has been published concerning Ian Fleming's contribution during the Second World War.

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the memoir of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the early 1800s.

Maiming, brutal murders, crimes of passion, suicides and executions; Chesterfield has all these and more in 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'.

D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history.

The "e;fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful"e; account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review).

This memoir of a Soviet POW’s escape from a Nazi concentration camp is a remarkable account of cruelty and courage during WWII.

“A truly remarkable story .