Biography: historical, political and military

"e;This account of oft-forgotten aspects of the war that is also a powerful survival story is highly recommended for the casual reader of military history as well as the serious scholar of the Pacific war.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz.

A dramatic true story of a man refined by fire, a Bruderhof pastor whose spiritual legacy continues to touch thousands.

In this book Anthony O'Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith.

Recovers and analyzes novel manuscripts and post-publication revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenth-century authorship.

Henry IV (1399–1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V.

This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C.

An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton.

Gloria Norris's KooKooLand is a memoir written on the edge of a knife blade.

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history.

This "e;excellent biography"e; of one of the US Army's unsung heroes "e;provides a much-needed re-examination of the early post-Vietnam Army"e; (Bowling Green Daily News).

Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II.

Demonstrates how Stephen Douglas''s path to overnight stardom in Illinois led to his identification with the Democratic Party.

Eine intellektuelle Biographie über Fremdheit und Ortlosigkeit, im Schreiben wie im Leben.

The story of the trial of visionary philosopher Giordano Bruno.

Emperor, general, and Vespasian's right hand, Titus Flavius Vespasianus (better known as simply Titus) was remembered by the Romans as a leader to be celebrated and a deity to be worshiped.

This new biography of Churchill’s top WWII advisor is “an excellent book for anyone interested in military leadership” (The NYMAS Review).

A gripping memoir documenting one couple's experience being imprisoned by the Japanese on a Philippine college campus during World War II.

Using the Icelandic context, Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originated, and their strengths and weaknesses for scholarly research.

The evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive holocaust memoir.

The instant New York Times bestselling author of the ';raw and revealing' (Interview magazine) Bad Mormon and breakout star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City returns with a hilarious and candid national bestseller about life and love as a former Mormon, mother, and reality TV star.

Their Origins, Beliefs, Traditions, and Customs This encyclopaedia focuses on the origins of all world religions.

When legislation was passed in 1948 giving women permanent status in the regular and reserve Navy, it was largely due to the efforts of Joy Bright Hancock, the author of this revealing memoir.

The badasses populating the pages of Badass are the most savagely awesome historical figures to ever strap on a pair of chain mail gauntlets and run screaming into battle.

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J.

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

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.

After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe.

Sarah Kovac was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), a rare congenital birth defect that left her with arms that she could barely use.

General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig.

Jedes Leben schreibt Geschichten.

This biography details how one man rose to prominence in the Elizabethan court and become the queen's favorite in more ways than one.

Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761 examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution.

In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain.

James Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family's Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire.

Nixons the One!

Edwin M.

Das persönliche Vermächtnis des legendären israelischen Staatsmannes und FriedensnobelpreisträgersÜber sechs Jahrzehnte gestaltete Shimon Peres maßgeblich die Politik Israels: als Staatspräsident sowie als Minister in beinahe jedem Ressort.

Among the important stories that need to be told about noteworthy Canadians, Lincoln Alexander's sits at the top of the list.

These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books.

Mit kriminalistischer Sorgfalt rekonstruiert Othmar Plöckinger erstmals detailliert, wie aus dem Kriegsheimkehrer Adolf Hitler der Parteiführer der NSDAP und ein radikaler Antisemit wurde.

In a culture that praises blending in over standing out, productivity over purpose, and noise over truth, many women find their God-given voice compromised, quieted, or even mocked.