Biography: historical, political and military

This book argues for editing Shakespeare''s plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions.

Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment.

It was November 1806.

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary "e;Trenchant.

During the Revolutionary War, Rufus Putnam served as the Continental Army's chief military engineer.

During the First World War Clare Gass spent four years as a lieutenant and nursing sister in the medical corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

First Place, International Latino Book Awards for Best BiographyFor Ernest Ernie Garcia, the American dream began in Mexico more than a hundred years ago.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ';History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise.

Reflects on and re-imagines the role of the scholarly edition and its reader in the twenty-first century.

Rene Levesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team.

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history.

A rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II

At the outbreak of war in 1940, Simon Frazer, the 15th Lord Lovat and a former Guards officer, was mobilized from the reserve list to join the Lovat Scouts, the British Army's first sniper unit that had been formed by his father during the Boer War.

Everyone needs a second chance, even if your name is George Foreman.

The first biography of America's Founding Father and premier president to address his relationship to slavery.

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Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "e;spirituality"e; within a secularized global politic.

The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon.

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827.

The Champion Buffalo Hunter is the fascinating memoir of one of the most legendary frontiersmen of the early West, "e;Yellowstone Vic"e; Smith.

This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

Werner Scholem never took the easy path.

David Wooster, Revolutionary War General, though woefully understudied, was one of the most influential figures in Colonial Connecticut.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

A military biography of the American soldier and statesman who managed the WWII Lend-Lease program and acted as governor of postwar Germany.

This is an exploration of the potent blend of Arthurian legend, cartoon animation, and cultural and artistic trends from 1933 to the present.

Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures.

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "e;Iron Curtain.

In Beyond the Possible, Reverend Cecil Williams, one of the most well-known and provocative ministers in the United States, reflects on his fifty years creating radical social change as the head of San Francisco's Memorial Glide Church.

An ';assiduously researched' (The Wall Street Journal), ';powerful.

This book traces the work of Tyndale and his successors, examining the translators'' manuscript work and the KJB''s textual and printing history.

Tomas Young's War is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, while courageously speaking against America's wars.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate.

This volume tells the story of the daylight air battles over Germany through the eyes of the Bf 109 aces involved.

Joel Barlow was the early Republic's most tenacious diplomat, a cheerful volunteer for difficult missions.

Eugenie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s.

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O.

Once North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in 1950, the lives of many Americans half the globe away, were disrupted.

In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald B.

Wegen "unnationalsozialistischer Lebensweise" sitzt der Maler Rudolf Schlechter 1938 in Berlin-Erkner in Untersuchungshaft.

Der Malteserorden1000 Jahre europäische Geschichte zwischen Orient und OkzidentDer Malteserorden ist mit einer Geschichte von fast 1000 Jahren die älteste humanitäre Organisation der Welt.

A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again "e;This colorful biography of Demetrius .

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "e;as clear and simple as possible.