Solomon Northup's 12 Years A Slave: A True Story is a memoir of gripping intensity that recounts his kidnapping and enslavement in 19th-century America.
Traudl Junge war 22 und träumte von einer Karriere als Tänzerin als sie die »Chance ihres Lebens« bekam: Adolf Hitler bat die junge Sekretärin zum Diktat.
Ein Reise zu einer Insel mitten im Pazifik, wo die Natur intakt ist und das Meer seine Geheimnisse offenbart: Sergio Bambaren, dem vor Jahren schon ein Delphin zum Lehrmeister und die Unterwasserwelt zur zweiten Heimat wurde, verbringt eine Woche auf Gorgona.
In een tijdperk van tumult en overgang tussen koningen en religies, vertelt Charles Frederic Holgrave het aangrijpende verhaal van Jane Grey, de vergeten koningin, wiens regering van slechts negen dagen Engeland voor altijd veranderde.
This carefully crafted collection of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Mother of Washington and her TimesReminiscences of Peace and WarThe Birth of the Nation: Jamestown, 1607Autobiography of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor - My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life
Dieses eBook: "Aus dem Leben einer Frau (Autobiografischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Wladimir Putin hat mit Hilfe einer kleinen, aber mächtigen Gruppe des russischen Geheimdienstes KGB, alten kommunistischen Potentaten und neureichen Oligarchen eines der größten Länder der Erde in eine Diktatur zurückverwandelt.
Dieses eBook: "Anton Reiser (Psychologischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.
PHILIP SNOWDEN was a proud Yorkshireman, a founding father of the Labour Party, its first Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually was seen as a traitor by the movement he did so much to build.
Dans cette nouvelle édition de son autobiographie acclamée, depuis longtemps épuisée et difficile à trouver, Alan Watts retrace son évolution spirituelle et philosophique d’enfant de conservateurs religieux dans l’Angleterre rurale à enseignant spirituel affranchi qui a poussé les Occidentaux à défier les conventions et à penser par eux-mêmes.
The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy.
Découvrez l'histoire captivante de l'impératrice Élisabeth d'Autriche, affectueusement surnommée Sissi, dans ce portrait fascinant d'une femme en quête de liberté et d'amour.
En momentos en que se recuerdan los cincuenta años del golpe de Estado empresarial-militar, aparece una nueva biografía de Salvador Allende Gossens, escrita sobre la base de numerosas entrevistas a los protagonistas de los mil días de la Unidad Popular y de nuevos antecedentes, producto de la desclasificación de archivos de la ex Unión Soviética y del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba.
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
Rosie Holt, the desperate and loyal Tory MP famous for her viral twitter interviews , is finally here in book form to celebrate the last 14 years of Conservative government and explain to you, the British public, why the so called scandals or controversial decisions derided by the left were completely right (and intentional) all along.
This book reveals a man who has been given a dangerously free pass by historians, but who in reality is not only a failed ex-president, but as vindictive as he is egotitical, and a self-righteous busybody who leaves diaster in his wake.
Die Malteser Ritter, auch bekannt als der Orden des Heiligen Johannes, sind ein faszinierendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte, geprägt von Tapferkeit, Glauben und unermüdlichem Einsatz für das Wohl der Menschheit.
Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer.
Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada.
From Montana--Around the World and BackThese are the memoirs and true-life story of a young man from Montana who joined the Army, trained as a tank operator, traveled around the world during World War II, worked on the Minuteman missile program, blew up chickens on his South Dakota farm, and raised his family during hard times.
This meticulously edited and unique collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Black HandThe QueenMertytefsNitocrisSebek-Nefru-RaAah-HotepAahmes-NefertariHatshepsutMaut-a-muaTyiNefertitiTuaaNofutari-MinimutUr-Maa-Nofur-RaTausertPersian QueensRoxanePtolemy QueensArsinoe IICleopatra VI
En una realidad cada vez más competitiva y hostil, no basta con conocer las herramientas tradicionales de la cooperación, la comunicación y la civilidad.
In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland's Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893.
Excerpt:"e;The life of William McKinley affords a shining example to all American boys of what honesty, perseverance, and a strict attention to duty can accomplish.
In his inspiring book, Ibrahim Ramzi presents a new and profound vision of history, challenging traditional theories that rely on social, political, economic and military factors as the primary drivers of history, emphasizing the role of human will and the prominent figures who shaped the course of history.
