Biographies and memoirs

This is the diary of a young German soldier who was drafted into the army towards the end of the Second World War, and the memories of his older sister who had to flee from the advancing Russian army. She also put her experiences and hardships on paper.

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

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.

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.

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.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (in English, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave) is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by the African-American orator and former slave F Douglass...

An insight into bus driving in rural Norfolk in the late sixties and early seventies.

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.