Biographies and memoirs

English Who Am I? is a deeply moving autobiographical journey through childhood, trauma, and self-discovery. Born in East Berlin, Paula grows up as an adopted child in a family full of secrets. A single sentence from her father shatters her

Goodbye Calcutta! draws on the family history, letters and memorabilia of Pat Gelder, an Anglo-Indian born in Calcutta, 1922. It covers his childhood at St Andrew’s Colonial Homes, Kalimpong; his life in the Bengal Police and as a merchant navy purser.

Hello Britain! draws on the family history, letters and memorabilia of Pat Gelder, an Anglo-Indian from Calcutta who left India in 1953 to live in the UK. It reviews his love letters to Dorothy Wheatley, their marriage and family life in Britain

It is my mission to create a large family of Vishnuists worldwide and to find common ground wherever possible by working together on a world of reason, logic, and unity.

Experiences related by Prisoners of War at Stalag VIIIB (344) Lamsdorf during the Second World War.

ALTHOUGH Rouen is now very far before all the other cities of Normandy in point of magnitude and importance, and though Rollo, in his conquest of the country, made it his principal headquarters and his main stronghold.

THE SUNSHADE, the Glove, the Muff. This collection, therefore, of feminine toys will be limited to two volumes, a collection which at first sight appeared to us so complex and heavy that a dozen volumes at least would have been required to contain.

This is the story of My Dad, A WWII Hero that foufgt in The South Pacific.

KING CHARLES THE FIRST was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end.

Such a deed is possible to you, to me, to everybody. It is frequently performed without forethought or definite intention. It is the spontaneous manifestation of nobility, somewhere, of mind or heart. It may consist merely in the doing of some kind.

ALEXANDER the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of

ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition.

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict

The celebrity of Romulus seems to be of this latter kind. He founded a city. A thousand other men have founded cities; and in doing their work have evinced perhaps as much courage, sagacity, and mental power as Romulus displayed.

"The story begins on May 5, 1805, in one of the wildest and most abrupt portions of New Spain, which now forms the State of Coahuila, belonging to the Mexican Confederation. If the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade.

THIS BOOK, is not intended to compete with any existing guides to Oxford: it is not a guide-book in any formal or exhaustive sense. Its purpose is to shew forth the chief beauties of the University and City, as they have ap-peared to several artists.

Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe.

Historic Boyhoods (1909) This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Boyhood stories of the Most famous persons in the world, and so These 21 famous persons lay out from Christoph

HANNIBAL was a Carthaginian general. He acquired his great distinction as a warrior by his desperate contests with the Romans. Rome and Carthage grew up together on opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea.

Isaac Newton was born on the 25th of December (old style), 1642, at Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire, about a half-mile from Colsterworth, and eight miles south of Grantham. His father, Mr. Isaac Newton, had died a few months after his marriage.

When George Washington was a boy there was no United States. The land was here, just as it is now, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific; but nearly all of it was wild and unknown.

Memoir of "Capitaine Baptiste" (Kenneth Yves Marcel MacKenzie) an SOE wireless operator and Maquis leader in the Morvan, France, in 1944.

Following the peace after the end of WWII, the UK was in the process of rebuilding its armed forces and there was a need to recruit and train more pilots. This book is David’s personal account of his time spent serving as a pilot in the Royal Air Force.

I was just a girl... A real story with lifelong scars

This work employs a corporatist analytical framework meshed with a comparative approach to examine inter-American relations during the early years of the Cold War. The emergence of Juan and Eva Perón in Argentina provoked a major ideological crisis.

A life story in the History of a War that Portugal tried to forget. Belonging to the Lisbon petit bourgeoisie the wife of an Air Pilot Officer lives in the 60s and 70s the greatest adventure of her life.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Owing to the passage of the power of patronage..

This book tells the story of a young Latvian man's war and captivity. Reinholds Mārtinš Švāgers, was conscripted into the Latvian Legion at the age of nineteen survived but suffered long imprisonment before attaining freedom.

A brief account of the Duckworth family of Queensbury with photographs.