Biography: historical, political and military

In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon.

All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and ';50s.

American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally--as few American soldiers could.

From the earliest interactions of Christians with the Roman Empire to today's debates about the separation of church and state, the Christian churches have been in complex relationships with various economic and political systems for centuries.

For too many students, Christian theology is learned in isolation from other religions traditions.

Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University’s libraries and museums.

“This military biography clearly and informatively rescues from an undeserved obscurity one of the Union’s key commanders at the battle of Gettysburg.

Archibald J Fowler The Rooster of Williamstown by Kerry J Fowler traces Archibald's family heritage from the reign of King Charles I of England, Ireland and Scotland to the arrival of his four grandparents in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia in the 1850s.

This concise biography of the world's most notorious terrorist tells the fascinating story of the evolution of a wealthy businesman's son to the 9/11 mastermind who declared war on America.

Cárcel, derecho y sociedad es un avance relevante en la discusión sobre las condiciones, los problemas, los efectos y las alternativas del sistema penitenciario actual en Colombia, e invita a una reflexión más amplia sobre el lugar de la prisión en la sociedad.

The horrors of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and labor camps were just the beginning of the struggle to survive for the Seiler family.

Nellie Letitia McClung (1873-1951) is recognized as a key figure in Canadian history as well as Canadian literature.

Pablo Abeita is the first biography of Pablo Abeita, a man considered the most important Native leader in the Southwest in his day.

A hard-hitting, ruthlessly honest political biography of Sen.

"e;Margaret Cropper was the first to capture [Evelyn Underhill's] life, which now in this new century can continue to inspire, challenge and point the way for those on the ancient quest for the holy.

"e;There are many aspects to this task of rabbinic training, but four closely related questions rise to the surface as requiring primary attention.

On May 10, 1945, Lieutenant James D.

He left KoRn to help himself.

'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and her Lord Treasurer, Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, of whom it was said that each 'was the greatest of his kind that hardly any age has afforded'.

This is volume 2 of a wide-ranging interfaith reading of the Letter to the Ephesians--a New Testament text whose words have inspired and enhanced Christian spiritual life and liturgy over the centuries.

When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military.

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS pioneering founders of modern special forces.

As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music.

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

How did Benito Mussolini come to fascism?

In the 1960s transitioning from acting to politics was rare.

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union.

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How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere captures for a general audience the spiritual shift away from a God "e;up there"e; and "e;out there"e; and towards an immanent divine right here.

Neue, unbekannte Einblicke in Konrad Adenauers Politik in der Endphase als Kanzler und CDU-Parteivorsitzender gibt das erst 2015 entdeckte Tagebuch des Sohnes Paul Adenauer.

John Owen was a scholar, pastor, dissenter, and faithful follower of Christ in a tumultuous time.

A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.

Several writers have remarked that Marlborough could have never achieved his great military success during the War of the Spanish Succession without the support, industry and ingenuity of his Chief of Staff, Quartermaster General and Chief of Intelligence, General William Cadogan, who became the 1st Earl of Cadogan, and who, in 1722, succeeded Marlborough as Commander-in Chief of the British Army.

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller: From President Joe Biden, a deeply moving memoir about the year that would change both a family and a country.

A blend of memoir, history, and oral storytelling, The Time Left between Us bridges the gap between the generation who fought World War II and the generation who has forgotten it.

An artful portrait of a complex, formative figure in American history and his turbulent era, from a New York Times-bestselling author.

Bembo, a Venetian patrician and man of letters, had a close association with the printer Aldus.

Shows that the young adult fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more.

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E.

A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a half-negro maidservant rides into Florence.

This is the biography of a man who made his greatest contribution to science in his reorganization of the U.

The Bush Family Women is a must-have collectible for devoted fans of the Bushes and a celebration of four womenBarbara, Laura, Jenna, and Barbarawho hold a unique place in the story of America.