Biography: historical, political and military

This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth.

Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Ieyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace.

No one has preached the gospel to more people than evangelist Billy Graham.

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form.

From one of America’s longest-serving foreign correspondents, a biography of France’s controversial politician and statesman.

Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.

Centuries after he ruled Russia from 1689 to 1725, Peter the Great remains one of the most revered and enigmatic leaders in world history.

In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968.

This objective, well-researched biography tells the story of the woman whose meteoric rise to the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidacy made history.

Award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating with new contentIntroduced by Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of WA and senior minister in the Keating government.

The Nixon Effect examines the 37th presidents political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life.

When introverted Jane Appleton and charismatic Franklin Pierce first met, they fell in love immediately, despite being complete opposites.

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A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office.

What do men run away from?

Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s.

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This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.

There is no western outlaw more infamous and notorious than Jesse James.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

This concise and penetrating analysis introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of twentieth- century French intellectual life.

Sheelagh Murnaghan was a remarkable person.

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist.

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "e;father of geopolitics.

Thomas Asbridge zeichnet ein prächtiges Porträt des besten aller Ritter: Guillaume le Maréchal war der eigentliche Lancelot seiner Zeit, der Inbegriff des Ritters.

Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian social engineering leads, ironically, to greater human suffering.

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

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe.

Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues.

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ.

John Dunlop assumed the office of secretary of labor with a stern warning about the creeping menace of over-regulation.

This simple narrative of an extraordinary life explores the power of a disinterested commitment to right and truth.

Die bewegende Geschichte des Hauptmanns Grüninger, der in den dreißiger Jahren zahlreichen Juden und Jüdinnen das Leben rettete, wurde nun auch verfilmt; anlässlich des Filmstarts von 'Akte Grüninger' am 30.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Amelie Rives was one of the most famous women in America.

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The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women's place in society.

Author Stephen Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no.

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe.

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With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the world's newspapers, came to a dramatic conclusion.

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a ';rigorous and compulsively readable memoir' (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

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"e;Ravished Armenia"e; and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history.