Biography: historical, political and military

Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.

Did Pat Garrett kill the wrong man in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, or did the outlaw known as Billy the Kid live on as William Henry Roberts until 1948?

Islamist, Scholar, Bomb-maker Spy.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld.

John Nutting is nineteen years old in 1966.

Overcoming nearly insurmountable physical disabilities, as well as personal tragedies that would derail the lives of many people, Pakisa Tshimika has experienced a life that has inspired countless others along the way.

Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written her memoir.

The definitive look at one of the most famous American generals of the American Indian Wars.

An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWIIEugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II.

A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped himWhen Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science-and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself-would reign supreme as the new religion.

World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a BattleshipVice Admiral John L.

An in-depth look at one of the twentieth century's star reporters and his biggest story.

Readers who miss the magisterial pronunciamentos of the late Max Lerner .

How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it againThe liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures.

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians-not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war.

The first major biography of the 1972 U.

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.

Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air?

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters.

El meteórico ascenso al poder de Hitler, el férreo control ideológico que impuso en Alemania, su popularidad frente a las masas y la eficaz maquinaria bélica que puso en marcha constituyen aspectos de un proceso cuyo éxito dependió, en buena medida, del trabajo realizado por su círculo íntimo.

The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.

She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries.

How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president-Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood-and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group.

A classic account of Alexander the Great's conquest and its impact on the conquered-now in English for the first timeThis is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia.

A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.

A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever told-Julius Caesar's pitiless account of his brutal campaign to conquer GaulImagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army-a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author.

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.

An in-depth look at the life, faith, and achievements of one of America's most fascinating women.

A biography examining the life of the fortieth president of the United States and the impact of his faith.

A gripping account of the man who emerged as a national hero through his military successes-and became the seventh President of the United States.

A biography of the often misunderstood, yet heroic, Confederate general who sacrificed everything for his native state of Virginia during the Civil War.

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Johnny Adair was born in the Shankhill Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Las compuertas de la libertad.

Encarnación Ezcurra fue para muchos apenas la esposa de Juan Manuel de Rosas, el "Restaurador de la Leyes", que gobernó con mano de hierro las Provincias Unidas del Río del Plata.

Dieses eBook: "Das Leben der galanten Damen (Aufsehenerregende Memoiren)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Karl Marx - Geschichte seines Lebens" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Wichtige Augenzeugen sowie Ches engste Freunde und Mitkämpfer kommen hier zum Teil erstmals zu Wort.

Sarah H.

In 'The Life and Military Carrier of General Robert E.

Henry Bibb's work, 'The Life and Adventures of an American Slave, Henry Bibb,' is a groundbreaking narrative that offers a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery in 19th century America.

In 'Der rote Kampfflieger' von Manfred von Richthofen wird die faszinierende Welt der Luftkämpfe im Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive des berühmten deutschen Jagdfliegers, auch bekannt als 'Roter Baron', beleuchtet.

Die "Lebensgeschichte des Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué" ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das die Leser in die Welt des 19.

In 'Der arme Mann im Tockenburg' von Ulrich Bräker wird die Geschichte eines armen Mannes erzählt, der in der ländlichen Schweiz des 18.

In 'Meine Beichte: Autobiografisches Werk Lew Tolstois' gewährt uns Leo Tolstoi einen tiefen Einblick in sein Leben und seine Gedanken.

Stefan Zweigs "Joseph Fouché: Historischer Roman" ist ein fesselndes Porträt eines der einflussreichsten politischen Figuren der französischen Revolution.

Daniel W.