Personal History

DescriptionA Personal History of the Ozarks of Arkansas, Connell J. Brown's latest book, examines the Ozarks from the perspective of a native Arkan...

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

Reducere. History of Japan: From early history to the present dayIntroduction to Japan's historyAre you interested in the history of Japan?Would you like to ...

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

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 ...

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....

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

6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president's plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close, fearing for ...

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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...

Reducere. Reprint of the classic J.F.C. Fuller book on Generalship with a new introduction by Charles M. Province reflecting on the current problems with Gen...

Reducere. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. ...

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Reducere. Historia de Jap n: de la prehistoria hasta la actualidadIntroducci n a la historia de Jap n Tienes inter s en la historia de Jap n? Te gustar a sab...

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Log Cabin Mine was once the largest gold-producing mine in California. It was state-of-the-art and could both extract and process th...

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

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

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

The gripping autobiography of a man whose air force career firmly proved him to be 'One of the Few'

Who Are China's Walking Dead? Former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, alongside an army colonel, a judge, a diplomat, a propag...

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...

DescriptionA revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal struggle for justice. From his time as a child in 1960s India, Siddharth Du...

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 ...

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Reducere. Timeless is the first book in the Timeless trilogy and documents 34 of the author's paranormal experiences. Starting at age 4, Solheim has led a pa...

Reducere. When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked--"How? Where do I begin?" I...

Reducere. As men with a background in combat sports began returning from night raids at greater number than those lacking, it soon became obvious to both the...

Reducere. Timeless Trinity is the completion of Solheim's paranormal trilogy of true stories. Trinity goes beyond the first two Timeless books as it details ...

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

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

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

Reducere. "Sruti Ram is a fearless adventurer--a believer in miracles, mysticism and magic. His wondrous life proves that for the sincere seeker, the one who...

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

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

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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...

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. The first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a "haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized ...

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Reducere. A classic of macrobiotic literature written in 1956 to explain macrobiotic medicine and philosophy to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Contains the most exte...

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

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...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

Reducere. In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a m...

Reducere. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired wom...

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. 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...

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 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...

Reducere. DescriptionToday's society is one in which we, as individuals, are constantly barraged by the threat of domestic terrorism. The ever-present fear f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleThe Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drab...

Reducere. Mile for mile, St. Simons Island--one of Georgia's Golden Isles--boasts as much history as any community on the East Coast. Originally an Indian hu...

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 ...

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

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In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

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...

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...

The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, h...

"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...

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regimePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(...

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

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

Reducere. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues throug...

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

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...

Reducere. At war for the Emperor with the horsemen of the CuirassiersAmong students of the Napoleonic Wars there has long been an enthusiasm for the memoirs ...