Personal History, Paperback

The autobiography of the daughter of the multi-millionaire who bought and restored the }Washington Post{ and wife of the charismatic but manic depe...

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If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mohinder DhillonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 252 x...

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Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

Reducere. In 1854, after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and ...

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way ...

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...

Reducere. In 1945, the Allied nations agreed on a judicial process, rather than summary execution, to determine the fate of the Nazis following the end of Wo...

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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended u...

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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

DescriptionWhen General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indi...

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DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

It was 1970. Fighting between the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been escalating, but a Quaker serving at a s...

Reducere. In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, an...

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A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and military factors involved.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

Reducere. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-...

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"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently ur...

Publisher: Candy Jar BooksAuthor(s): Colin EdwardsNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 245 x 191 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Published alongside Armando Iannucci's new film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Tilda S...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis is an autobiography of Edward C. Engle. It tells the story of his childhood and education and eventual migration to the Navy as a b...

Reducere. General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as one of America's greatest h...

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumb...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

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An odyssey through the art, theory and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, ass...

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The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names

Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, " t...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): M. Leona GodinNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 35Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

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The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule ended

Reducere. In this riveting political and social history of the American South during the second half of the twentieth century, acclaimed journalist Curtis Wi...

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regi...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manag...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert JungkAuthor: Jungk RobertTranslator: James CleughAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear...

Reducere. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the lon...

Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BC...

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead....

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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his mi...