Personal History

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

"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...

Reducere. A history of the office of the President of the United States, from 1789 to the present...This book is a perfect introduction to America's Presiden...

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...

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

Blenheim Palace is one of the most important buildings in Europe, and the only palace in England that is still lived in as a family home.Publisher:...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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. 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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

Personal accounts by individual Japanese servicemen.Illustrations: 80 black and white illustrations

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...

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...

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. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the o...

The volume offers a discussion of the intra and extra familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander.Illustrat...

Reducere. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the o...

An overview of what Civil War soldiers and veterans chose to record and share about their experiences in the years after the war.Publisher: Casemat...

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...

Reducere. While multimillion-dollar prizes are common in esports today, did you know that esports began humbly in a small Asian country without a significant...

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...

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 ...

From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to un...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second expedition to the de...

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 ...

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. 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. 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. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

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

Reducere. 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...

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Frederic ShoberlNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 227 x 182 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 - 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous fo...

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...