Historical Biographies

Isabella: From Auschwitz to Free...

Gathering two classic memoirs of the Holocaust, Fragments of Isabella and Saving the Fragments, a te - ISBN10: 0385473184 ISBN13: 9780385473187 Material Type: paperback

The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel How...

In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, the ambitious director of Bostons Perkins Institution for the Blind, - ISBN10: 0312420293 ISBN13: 9780312420291 Material Type: paperback

Brothers on the Santa Fe and Chi...

Atticus Finch: The Biography [Pa...

Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prizewinning historian reveals the man behind the legendThe publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch Once seen as ...

Erzhl es niemandem: Die Liebesge...

Kln 20 cm 284 p Encuadernacin en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada Idioma Alemn 21 Aufl Whrend des 2 Weltkrieges verlieben sich die Norwegerin Lillian Berthung und der deutsche Soldat Helmut Crott...

The Childrens War: Germany 1939 ...

Author Peter Bodo Gawenda draws on his own firsthand experience as a child living in Germany during WWII to reflect on the impact the war had on children Born in the Third Reich under Hitler, Gawen...

The Deadliest Outlaws: The Ketch...

After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged The appeal failed and he...

Blackwater Draw: Three Lives, Bi...

On March 9, 1878, three men were murdered in isolated Blackwater Canyon in New Mexico The suspects were Billy the Kid and a number of his Regulators This action, almost assuredly taken in retaliati...

A Gathering of Fugitives [Paperb...

Cultural Writing A fascinating exhumation of a littleknown group of American communistsidealists, artists, spies and Hollywood typeswho migrated to Mexican exile in the late 1940s and 1950s Diana A...

The Loss of the Titanic: I Survi...

The Loss of the Titanic is the thrilling memoir of second class passenger Lawrence Beesley, who survived the sinking of the Titanic in lifeboat 13 Originally published in 1912, and long out of prin...

George Carmack Man of Mystery Wh...

George Carmacks announcement of a gold strike in August 1896 started a gold stampede that led more than a half million men to the Klondike New edition of Carmack of the Klondike ISBN10: 097084932X...

Guerrilla Daughter [Paperback] H...

The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War IIJust nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Har...

Stalins Romeo Spy: The Remarkabl...

Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov 190175 led a life that might seem farfetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction The result of a ...

We Were Merchants: The Sternberg...

The words GoudchauxsMaison Blanche conjure up a wealth of fond memories for local shoppers At this landmark Louisiana department store, clerks greeted you by name; children received a nickel to buy...

Virgil Earp: Western Peace Offic...

The exploits of Wyatt Earp, real or otherwise, always have overshadowed those of his brothers Now, for the first time, Donald Chaput removes the eldest brother, Virgil Earp, from that shadow and te...

Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness ...

The story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through twentyeight neverbeforepublished accountsa precious and historic findIn the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of ...

Samuel Johnson: A Biography [Har...

Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samu...

Cochise: The Life and Times of t...

Praise for Peter Aleshire?s The Fox and the WhirlwindSuperbly crafted Dallas Morning NewsOffers a refreshing approach to understanding the Apache wars, allowing readers to grasp the conflict from m...

Let me tell you what Ive learned...

Barbara Jordan spoke for many Texas women when she told a reporter, I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there a...

Unflinching Courage: Pioneering ...

In Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped t...

A Dab of Dickens A Touch of Twa...

GEOFFREY CHAUCER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE JANE AUSTEN ROBERT BROWNING ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING EDGAR ALLAN POE CHARLES DICKENS CHARLOTTE EMILY BRONT EMILY DICKINSON MARK TWAIN GEORGE ELIOT...

The Children of Henry VIII [Pape...

Fascinating Alison Weir does full justice to the subjectThe Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nineyearold Prince...

The Mysterious Life and Faked De...

A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on famil...