Biography: historical, political and military

The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota.

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and the Queen of the West.

President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him.

The story of Harriet Smith Pullen's early life, from her childhood journeys by covered wagon to her family's subsistence in sod houses on the Dakota prairie where they survived grasshopper plagues, floods, fires, blizzards, and droughts is a narrative of American migration and adventure that still resonates today.

The first woman ever elected to the U.

From Calamity Jane's relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Mastersonand learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today.

From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in Americas history.

In Warfighter, Colonel Jesse L.

There is no one quite like her.

Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life.

Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine.

On February 24, 1838, Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley was killed in Maryland by another Congressman from Kentucky in one of the last duels to take place in the United States.

The main character in this book, a true, real life person, was an unassuming man brought up in a large, working class family.

In popular culture, anal sex is often thought of as strictly a female receptive actreceptive to a penis, that is.

Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.

On an I will if you will dare, John Haley enlisted in the 17th Maine Regiment in August 1862 for three years, unless sooner discharged.

Alice Zwicker was the only service woman from Maine to be a prisoner of the enemy in either of the two World Wars.

On March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history.

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.

Inheritance.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

George Romney built an unconventional political career that inspired and moved many, including his son Willard Mitt Romney.

Made in America provides illuminating annotations to the unfiltered social media output of Donald J.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERRead the legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, seen through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman'An engaging and revealing read' JOHN NICHOL---Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow.

The book represents the personal diary of Frances Burney, married D'Arblay, covering the period from 1779 to 1840.

In the midst of history's darkest hour, one man's sacrifice will illuminate the depths of human courage.

What makes a leader truly great?

Die Kanzler der Weimarer Republik wirkten in einer Epoche, den "Goldenen Zwanzigern", die durch extreme Gegensätze gekennzeichnet war: Kriegsniederlage, wirtschaftliche Dauerkrise und langsam heraufziehende Diktatur auf der einen Seite, demokratischer Neuanfang, Aufbruch in die Moderne und kulturelle Blüte auf der anderen Seite.

LA VIDA DE UNA MUJER SIN PRECEDENTES QUE MARCÓ EL DESTINO DEL IMPERIO Agripina la Menor alcanzó un nivel de poder impensable para una mujer en la Roma del siglo I.

Julián Trujillo Largacha, quien inició la Regeneración en Colombia, fue un civil transformado en militar que destacó por sus principios liberales y por la defensa de las instituciones democráticas.

Natürlich kann man glauben, was man will.

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing' - Andrew Neil'A delicious read' - Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' - Jeremy Paxman'Very funny' - Steve Coogan'An excellent book' - James O'Brien'He writes brilliantly' - Adam BuxtonWhy Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?

Dieses eBook: "Lelia (Autobiografischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in Americas history.

Devastating and compellingDAILY MAILPoignant TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT____________________________________________________________________________________________ The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex.

Wir alle wollen wissen, wer wir sind und woher wir kommen.

Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, gardener, traveller and heiress; she was also bisexual and a rebel.

Karl Friedrich Kolbow - Mitglied der NSDAP seit 1921 - war von 1933 bis 1944 Landeshauptmann der Provinz Westfalen.

"e;Casts grave doubt on the validity of Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi's conviction as the Libyan terrorist responsible for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103.

Step into the tumultuous world of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, a powerful and evocative novel set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.

';Impeccably researchedcaptivating!

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining.

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph, Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe P tain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940.

Con oficio y destreza de artesana María Elena Barral ha logrado reconstruir una historia que hasta hace poco habría sido siquiera imposible de imaginar.

La emergencia de regímenes autoritarios durante las dos últimas décadas constituyó un importante desafío a la tradicional práctica social de la Iglesia Católica latinoamericana.

'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.