Biographies and memoirs

A powerful story of one man’s life-long fight for justice and freedom for thousands of sexually abused and trafficked women and children in the Philippine sex trade.

A powerful memoir of resilience, courage, and hope. A physician shares her personal journey through professional challenges, loss, and survival, revealing the strength to preserve dignity and speak her truth.

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 story delivers a powerful message of humanity, compassion, and hope, encouraging readers to understand the pain of others and recognize that kindness can change lives.

Oil has shaped the modern world more than almost any other natural resource. From transportation and industrial production to military operations and global trade, oil became the fuel that powered economic growth and geopolitical influence. At the same ti

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life.

IN ancient times, when the city of Rome was at the height of its power and splendor, it was the custom, as it is in fact now with the inhabitants of wealthy capitals, for the principal families to possess, in addition to their city residences..

The Memoirs of the time of Napoleon may be divided into two classes—those by marshals and officers, of which Suchet's is a good example, chiefly devoted to military movements, and those by persons employed in the administration and in the Court.

The palace is near a little village called Linlithgow. The village has but one long street, which consists of ancient stone houses. North of it is a little lake, or rather pond: they call it, in Scotland, a loch.

This book illustrated version of the Mar Twain's "Following the Equator; A Journey Around the World" . It has nearly 200 illustrated graphics and pictures.. A man may have no bad habits and have worse. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.

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.

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 and

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.

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.

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

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..

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.

They had tried to bury the story so deep that it could not be found immediately. They made a promise to each other that no one would ever tell anything, especially not to the children.

"You're about to enter the eye of the storm." Donald J. Trump wasn't just a name on the ballot.

The young Gurubesar of the Vishnuh-Society came to the Netherlands

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.

The new book by Stanislav Kondrashov presents a unique documentary panorama of the modern world, with its multitude of complexities, contrasts, and contradictions, as well as intense struggles between forces and military conflicts.

The proposed book contains essays written at different times about the inhabitants of the United States of America - the people the author encountered across the ocean.

In his new artistic-documentary book, the renowned internationalist S. Kondrashov once again delves into the theme that has become central to him: we and the Americans, living in a world overshadowed by the threat of nuclear war.

Offering this book to the reader, the author wanted to emphasize that he spent six and a half years in New York as a correspondent for "Izvestia" and during this time traveled extensively throughout the United States.

NOT FAR FROM NEW YORK, Stanislav Kondrashov

From the Jungle to the Deep Blue Sea is a book about British Forces serving in Belize from the 1960s up to the withdrawal of forces in the early 1990s. This was the main period of confrontation with Guatemala and contains individual memories of that time.

Memories and recollections of Royal Signals soldiers serving with the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force, Land AMF(L) 1967 to 2002

Born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Margaret Hilda Roberts (later Thatcher) exhibited early signs of her remarkable intellect and determination. Raised in a modest family, she studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford.

This Book is about Syed Nazim Hussain Shah