Biography: historical, political and military

The first scholarly account of the South Carolina Democrat's career and the transformation of Southern U.

In 2012, Specialist Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

Volume 1 of Searching For My Identity is a chronological autobiography of an outlaw biker that covers his life from troubled adolescent in the sixties to prominent leader of a notorious international motorcycle club in January 2001.

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.

The ';captivating' (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerfuland elusivewoman in the world.

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century.

The second volume in this series, dealing with 1777-1779.

John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

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

"e;The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke,"e; a compelling primary document previously unpublished, offers insights into the life and mind of a seventeen-year-old young woman, while also providing a fascinating window into the cultural and social landscape of the early national period.

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (18171876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles.

Inspiring and rivetingvivid and harrowing (Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon), Danger Close is the first memoir of active combat by a female helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The story of Richard Arrington Jr.

Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy.

Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo.

How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India?

A New York Times BestsellerTheodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City.

Airpower Pioneers studies twelve especially influential airmen, detailing their impact on the evolution of the United States Air Force (USAF).

"e;This biography will find its place among a growing literature on post-war Southern politics.

IsolatedCommand Post Keating - one of the most vulnerable US army bases in Afghanistan.

A biography of the US senator from Indiana who was behind such monumental legislation as the 25th Amendment and Title IX.

"e;Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military .

Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe.

This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.

In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

This fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany reveals how the close relationship between Mussolini and Hitler influenced both men.

Hitlers Kindheit und Jugend in neuem Licht.

A Plain Sailorman in China is a biography of Cdr.

Kochen ohne Grenzen.

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

Adolf Hitler was hardly the modern world's only murderous tyrant and imperialist.

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.

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories.

Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name.

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him.

A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.

This "e;elegant and engaging"e; biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "e;a masterpiece"e; (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).

In the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, during the government of Louis St Laurent and Lester Pearson, Escott Reid played a central role.