Reducere. Born into poverty in a racially segregated Amercia, Josephine Baker flees to France where she embraces the hedonistic lifestyle on offer in Paris o...
Reducere. Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir r...
northern illinois university press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Peter M. F. Sichel, a fourth-generation wine merchant, found the path he was destined to walk interrupted by the Nazis while growing up as a Jew in...
archway publishing, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author,...
oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-D...
picador usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today), tells the spellbinding t...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard f...
hanover square press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle, III - a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded the Navy Cross...
academica press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government
Reducere. Description"A truly inspiring story of courage and triumph."--Nelson DeMille The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African America...
hanover square press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary